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Mum asks if it's okay to charge 'disrespectful' teenage daughter rent to live at home

Is it reasonable to ask your teenager to pay rent to live in your home? A frustrated mum has asked this question after revealing her struggles with her 16-year-old daughter.

Starting a thread on Mumsnet, she said her daughter was treating her home like a drop-in centre and she was considering charging the youngster rent, but didn’t know whether that was unreasonable.

She wrote: "My daughter is 16, 17 in September and finishes school this month. Well, I say finishing school, but she has only attended twice through the whole of year 11.

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