Should grown-up children at home pay rent?

WHAT a sense of entitlement young people have! If you are working and still live in the family home, you should pay rent and your parents shouldn’t feel guilty about asking you to contribute (Mail). Being charged an average of £260 a month does not reflect the true cost of keeping you. Parents don’t owe anything to their grown-up children.

B. REID, Belfast.

WHEN I was asked to pay rent by my parents, this was an incentive to leave home. Paying rent to a landlord has brought me independence rather than not seeing any gain from paying the same amount of money for living in my childhood home. I felt my parents were asking me to pay on principle rather than necessity.

CLAIRE HARRIS, Bromley, Kent. FRIENDS charged rent to their son, who had a well-paid job. On the day he moved out to live in his own home, his parents handed him a cheque for the amount of rent he’d paid to them over the years.

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CHARGING adult children to live in the family home helps teach them the value of money. Our parents made sacrifices to bring us up, so it’s only fair that when we start earning, we pay them back.

STEPHEN TONG, Pudsey, W. Yorks. WHY do adult children on a good salary think they are entitled to live free in the family home? If they ever leave home they will get a shock at how much food, gas, electricity and council tax cost. As soon as I left school in the Sixties and got a job, I paid my keep, even though my weekly salary as a typist was only £8. When I got a raise, I paid even more.

L. BARKER, Sittingbourne, Kent.