Do you help your parents financially?

[viper37]

I don't take care of my father, for now, and he certainly doesn't care for me though he's still trying to decide what's good and what's not good for me.

[crazy canuck]

I don't take care of my father, for now, and he certainly doesn't care for me though he's still trying to decide what's good and what's not good for me.

He will always be your father.  I dont think I will ever stop worrying about/giving unsolicited advice to my boys.

[Malthus]

Nope, as my parents are quite well off. I would if it were necessary of course.

[crazy canuck]

All you trustafarians make me sick.

[Valmy]

All you trustafarians make me sick.

Man...if only...

[crazy canuck]

Anyone who has money flowing to them from their parents has nothing to complain about.  Even if it is the mere absence of the requirment to give their parents money.

[Neil]

All you trustafarians make me sick.

Not everyone can be blessed with a poverty-stricken background.

[crazy canuck]

All you trustafarians make me sick.

Not everyone can be blessed with a poverty-stricken background.

True.

[katmai]

Occasionally i do, more to my mother than my dad.

[Malthus]

Anyone who has money flowing to them from their parents has nothing to complain about.  Even if it is the mere absence of the requirment to give their parents money.

Actually, there was a plan in the works to make me the beneficiary of a trust - essentially because of the formation of a provincial park in Quebec creating an expropriation risk regarding the cottage my parents own jointly with my dad's sisters (long story). For various reasons it proved unnecessary ... but had it gone forward it would have made me, in my 40s, a trustifarian at last. 

[Barrister]

Anyone who has money flowing to them from their parents has nothing to complain about.  Even if it is the mere absence of the requirment to give their parents money.

Actually, there was a plan in the works to make me the beneficiary of a trust - essentially because of the formation of a provincial park in Quebec creating an expropriation risk regarding the cottage my parents own jointly with my dad's sisters (long story). For various reasons it proved unnecessary ... but had it gone forward it would have made me, in my 40s, a trustifarian at last. 

Don't they usually grandfather those is?  One of my secretaries in Whitehorse owned a cabin in the middle of a national park - because her family had owned it before the park was created.

[Malthus]

Don't they usually grandfather those is?  One of my secretaries in Whitehorse owned a cabin in the middle of a national park - because her family had owned it before the park was created.

That's what eventually happened, yes. But for a while there was talk, as it turned out inaccurate, that the park would use some sort of creeping expropriation - that transfer to heirs would trigger a forced sale to the province. 

[Neil]

Besides, it would be unwise to trust the province of Quebec.  The rule of law doesn't extend there, and there is no protection unless your family name is Corleone.

[Camerus]

My father, whom I talk to very frequently, is utterly bi-polar on the subject of his money and more secretive and closed than Stalin's USSR.  I certainly don't get anything - the only question is whether my sister and I will need to support our parents once Dad retires.  I honestly have no idea whether the man has $1 or $1,000,000 in savings.

[Iormlund]

I don't know anyone my age that makes anywhere near as much money as my parents do. In this our land of two-tiered labour protection, it's parents that help their "kids".