to your parents is something I had to do after finishing school with 19
When they get old and ask you to wipe their arses, ensure you ask them to pay you.
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ComfortableRaspberry@feddit.org 2 days ago
parents asking their teenage children for for rent
German here. I enjoy bashing US Americans as much as the next one, but paying rent to your parents is something I had to do after finishing school with 19 (did a social year first and then went to uni and had to share my Bafög). And a lot of people I knew back then, had the same situation at home. At least for families with low income this seemed to be not out of the ordinary.
FelixCress@lemmy.world 2 days ago
cRazi_man@europe.pub 2 days ago
It’s a bit of a cultural thing in some ways. A bit of a privilege/necessity thing as well.
I would find it unimaginable to pay my parents rent, charge them rent or charge my kids rent. We’ve never struggled to survive financially. My parents never even held me to doing chores, etc. I can see the logic of everyone living together contributing to the household(through money or chores or whatever). But my area of upbringing and family always treated childhood as immensely protected and solely for learning and playing(same for my peers, no matter how well off or poor they were). The lesson was always there to look after yourself…so as soon as I left home at 18, I had no problem with doing my own cooking, washing, scrubbing my toilet, budgeting/saving, etc.
ComfortableRaspberry@feddit.org 2 days ago
It’s a money kind of thing.
I spend my elementary school holidays working on my father’s farm. When I moved to my mother I started to work for her instead. Doing chores and taking care of yourself was simply expected. No actual choice, since grown ups were out working, sleeping or taking care of the things you’re not old enough to do.
There is a point where people simply can’t afford it to not parentify their children. And the people you perceived as “poor” simply didn’t reach that point.
I don’t want to say my parents weren’t at fault but in that exact moment in their life they had no other choice, at least my mother, who also leaned way more on us.
watson@lemmy.world 2 days ago
For what it’s worth, Americans absolutely adore talking shit about Germans
Miaou@jlai.lu 2 days ago
Ugh? Americans worship Germans to an embarrassing level.
watson@lemmy.world 2 days ago
That sounds like an interesting alternate reality. Care to share more?
runner_g@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
a tiny % of Americans are neo-nazis.