re: Is kicking children out of the house when they turn 18, or mess up, a thing of the past?

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health insurance car payment? Were not in the budget or necessary

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Well, one of those is necessary to get to a job. The other is idiotic not to carry unless you want to roll the dice and hope nothing ever happens to you. Because if it does, enjoy your $5000 bill from the hospital you can’t afford to pay

What the hell is wrong with British women?!

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You cannot be sued out of your home, car, or basic possessions. Medical bills (unless you have a ton of assets) are a meme. I got a $25,000 bill after a wreck, it went away after a while

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You’re part of the problem with healthcare costs. Congrats

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I cant imagine how anyone 18 years old could afford to live on their own anymore

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have you seen the price of feet pics?

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have you seen the price of feet pics?

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a friend of my daughter ( no pics,) is a foot model, she has a really good day job but she makes a ton of money modeling her feet for various shoe/ clothing companies, they fly her all over the place for photo shoots

I graduated LSU in 2014 and moved into some type of Section 8 housing where I had to sign a waiver stating I couldn't sue them if I got lead poisoning from putting holes in walls and licking the paint because there was still lead in those walls. Water was covered. Internet was $60/mo. Electricity usually under $100. I had to pay and use the community washer/dryer which was maybe $1.50 to do each load. Rent was $600, unfurnished. Added up about $760 for essentials each month. Add additional living expenss:
Groceries $200
Gas and auto insurance $150
I mostly made my own breakfast/lunch/dinner to save costs. Total now is $1110. Round it up to $1200 for the hell of it.

This doesn't include doing things like going out with friends, ordering out on nights when I didn't feel like cooking, etc. Some situations call for a full lock down on finances. I didn't make a whole lot in my first couple of years working and it sucked. I still found ways to save money and enjoy my time outside of work. It was for sure doable then, probably a bit tougher now, but it requires a ton of discipline.



I think everyone is missing the point of the OP. A pregnant 18 year old is losing the support of their parents completely. They'll be responsible for housing/feeding/clothing a baby. We pay $1000/mo in daycare for a toddler and that's because it gets cheaper as they get older. It was close to $1200 for a newborn. We still provided diapers/wipes/bottles until they got to around a year old where all we did was stop providing bottles and daycare brings the food. We were fortunate enough that Mrs. BTB (no pics) pumped every 2-3 hours so we could feed our baby for an entire year and never use formula. We were also extremely fortunate our child didn't have an allergies to breast milk that would've forced us to buy formula. Formula is fricking expensive.

To finish this off, the father in the video is a POS for abandoning his daughter because she made a life changing choice that can easily be helped with on his end.

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I don't know how anyone lives on his own in today's economy.

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my daughter is 36, never married, no kids, is on her second house, paid off the first, used the equity to move it on up, drives a nice, paid off Explorer, travels, has money for a rainy day, maybe she should be an influencer but is probably too busy working

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To finish this off, the father in the video is a POS for abandoning his daughter because she made a life changing choice that can easily be helped with on his end.

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Did you watch the video?

I'm not at all convinced that the father is kicking the daughter out. When I heard him say he was kicking someone out, he was talking to the deadbeat baby daddy.

Even if he was talking about kicking the daughter out, you're still wrong IMO.

I have two daughters. If at 18 years old either one of them had come to me with this same news the conversation we would have had would have been about supporting her through the pregnancy, birth, and adoption procedure, the baby daddy would never see her again from that day forward, and after all of that was over, how life was going to be different so that this didn't happen again until she was married and stable and if it did, that she would indeed be on her own.

Now the girl in the video would have responded to that conversation like she did to her own father, which was basically, "You can't tell me what to do, I'm a grown woman."

To which I would respond, "Then you don't need my help."

If I'm expected to take care of her like she's a child, then I'm going to make decisions for her. She doesn't get to make all her own decisions and then make me responsible for the consequences.

Again, that so many of y'all think that's reasonable is exactly why young people are so delusional these days.

25 years old unless there’s a unique situation.