He turned 18 two weeks before numbskull. It says it in the FML.

Doesn't matter if he just turned 18 today, his parents are no longer legally required to look after him. If he wants to stay with them he should earn his keep. It's completely fair to ask someone who's staying with you to pay rent, since they're using your water, electricity, ect. Possibly eating your food as well. No way in hell would I let someone stay with me for an extended period of time for free, relative or not.

Let's throw out a18 year old on his birthday and tell him to **** himself.

Hmmm, #86, the OP clearly hasn't got the memo that humanity has adopted a turtle parenting style.

Apparently no-one in Southern Europe got the memo either.

It's August, anyone who turned 18 this year should be finished high school unless they failed. Also, since it's summer he should be working full time anyways. I think asking him to pay rent is fair, unless he is saving for college/university.

Just because you're so self-entitled that you think it is your RIGHT to be supported by your parent until an time when you're comfortable on your own doesn't mean that a parent should have to support their child until such a point. You act like being financially and morally responsible for the well-being of someone for 18+ years is an easy endeavor. And we don't know what type of child OP was, we don't know whether they misbehaved and constantly caused their parents problems or if they are responsible, caring person. The truth is, if you're living in your parents' house, eating your parents' food, and living off your parents' income, you don't really have the right to be such a snot about being asked to contribute a little or gtfo. And FYI, I'm allergic to cats and I have a cat. If you vacuum regularly, take medicine when needed, and don't let your cat sleep on your pillows it's fine. So calm down, OP's mom didn't spike OP's juice with cyanide or anything.

Good for you. Not everyone has the same reaction. Allergies have a scale of 0-6, therefore not everyone's reaction is the same.

Please don't have kids. One of my friends has a parent who thought just like that. She lives in a country where it's legal to move out at 16 and her mother has repeatedly threatened to kick her out since her sixteenth birthday. Eventually, she moved across the country to live a with a guy several years older than her she met online. Fortunately, he turned out to be a good guy and is now her boyfriend, but her mother did not care what happened to her. All she cared about was that my friend got out. She didn't care about the fact that her daughter could've been falling right into a predator's hands. Moving out at 18 isn't feasible for everyone and jobs don't just fall out of the sky. They take time. I'd rather care for my kid past the age of 18 than just throw them out on the streets, where who knows what could happen to them.

98, if you're telling me not to have kids, you're ridiculously overreacting. And probably another self-entitled brat. There's a happy medium between spoiling your kids until they're 35 still living in your basement, and sending your kid out on the streets as soon as you possibly can. Just because I think that children should be brought up to believe they should assume some responsibility, both for their actions and their finances, does not mean I'd be a bad parent. And there are other ways of saving up money if you can't get a job (even though you've applied, and educated yourself, and tried to make social connections and put in as much effort as possible, like everyone else who is trying to get a job right now).

A self-entitled brat wouldn't care about the safety of her friend, so you lose that argument.