Is it toxic to charge kids rent?

"wtf are you thinking making money off of your kids ???"

Diem cofounder Emma Bates on one of last week’s most popular posts.

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I have a lot of thoughts about this! While your situation reads as potentially toxic (given everything else you mentioned about your relationship with your mother), ordinarily, I do not think it’s toxic to charge a little bit of rent. However the context, and also your culture, is everything.