Charging an 18-year-old in high school rent

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56. Sickening -

there was LTTE in our local paper where a woman bragged about teaching her kids responsibility in this way. She was proud to report she withheld comforts from her children to teach them but she sounded sick to me. There was a touch of sadism to her satisfaction.
There are also parents who do not want their children to do better than they have done. I wonder if the parents of your friend are like this. If the child is having to shortchange her academics to satisfy the room and board, the parents either do not know what it takes for kids to excel at school now or they want to sabotage her. My guess is the parents are pretty good at withholding love as well.

I know a woman who was raised like that. She had to pay for all the food she ate while she was in high school. She worked 3 part-time jobs. The subconscious message was that she was not of the class that should go to college. She did indeed learn responsibility for herself but she was also hurt in a way that has left a permanent scar on her heart.

Cruelty comes in many forms.