An oyinbo couple, Patricia and her husband, announced on social media that they planned to sue their 18-year-old son because he refused to continue paying a daily “parenting fee.” This sparked a heated family argument.
The teenager allegedly abruptly stopped paying the couple after leaving their home and renting a separate apartment without their permission.
The events leading up to the argument were described by Patricia in a now-famous Facebook post, who claimed that their son had been paying regular “parenting fee” payments since he was 13 years old.
However, things took a turn when he decided to leave the family home with their authorization to seek independence.
Patricia wrote;
“My 18-year-old son left home with our authorization to get an apartment, and now refuses to pay his daily parenting fees that he has been paying since he was 13 years old. How would I go about suing him?”
See reactions below;
MiKarma4u said; Parenting fees are set up by selfish parents who are overly dependent upon their children and find the children as a source of income.. Making the children an indentured servant or basically the family prostitute..
@deltaplan said; “I understand the concept that when children who still live with their parents start earning money, the parents ask them to contribute to the family expenses. The parents will even pay income tax on their children income if they are still part of the household, so it’s totally…”
@SkyeKahoalii said; “What are “parenting fees?” Although just the term and the information that these fees were extracted from a minor seems sketchy as hell.”