That's the cost of having a child. In return they get the joy and love of having a child (well worth the approximately $100K most parents spend). It's not a loan—they don't get reimbursement.

but still the parents give him a fake check??

you are 100% financially responsable for any children you have til their 18th birthday. it's not the op's fault they were born. money borrowed needs to be returned. the fact that they made an attempt to pay it back, means they know it is owed. if they were .03 short, it would not have cleared. it could have been a simple math error, or maybe there were fees for overdrafting or something they didn't realize when they were finally able to put money in the account. the bank takes their money first. cleary they're having financial issues, but they should be borrowing money from parents or siblings, not their children.

I agree with 44 and 49. It was their decision to have a child, knowing the financial responsibility. Any parent who expects their child to pay them back for having them, or is resentful of their kid because they're poor, maybe they should have given up that kid for adoption.

So the whole parent child thing is just like university education? You have one because you want a $100000 return at some point? She didn't chose to be born.

And so that makes it ok to lie and cheat their kids? fy kids lives if u ever have or had any. and u have no idea how ops parents raised him coulda just left him in front of a tv with just enough to live or made him work for everything. even then 2k is a lot. maybe op actually needs it.

People make me sick if your parents need help you help them. All this crap about their responsibility not about paying back a loan. Your right your not paying back a loan its appreciation for what they did for you. When did society become so damn selfish? i don't agree with a fake check just say you don't have it but if your parents need help provided they were a decent parent and maybe even if they weren't to an extent you should help them out. The World is becoming a sad miserable place.

lmfao yea cuz every parent pays for their kids collage. u know there's actually ppl out there who only have kids for the welfare checks? or to have the kids work when their of age so they don't have to? parents r not entitled to shit. and if they WERE good parents they wouldn't give him a fake check which could have gotten him in huge trouble. so maybe ur daughter should know u only had her so she could pay u back some day and not because u actually wanted a sweet child to care for and love. cuz as I recall if u love someone u don't ask them to pay u back for things u do because u love them.

I was being facetious before because (the extended version of "cuz" ;) ) I realize there are a lot of shit parents out there who don't deserve their kids pissing on them if they were on fire. I believe I have an obligation to support my daughter through college, and if she's smart enough to get into a graduate program, I'll help her through that, too. That's the way we do it in my family, but I realize that we are not necessarily typical.

Me, too! But I'm confused how she got such huge pecs from lifting such small weights!