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Do adult children owe their parents lives after taking care of them for 18 years?

I feel like we do owe it to them because they took care of us, spend a LOT of money on us, fed us, clothed us, took us to doctors appointments, put us in school and everything so we DO owe them. If my parents need help or need some money I’ll be gladly to do it because they took care of my sister and I so we owe them for that but we don’t owe them EVERYTHING.

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hotarabgirl · 22-25, F

nah. i don’t think we owe them anything for providing the basic needs. they CHOSE to have children so they gotta deal with running the money for it. no one asked to be born and children can’t provide for themselves.

don’t get me wrong, i agree that if my parents ever needed something, i wouldn’t hesitate to help. but that’s more based on our relationship with each other. it’s not a form of “payback” for doing the bare minimum that comes with having a child.