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.