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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just wondering what people think about step parents contributing financially to adult children.

Older man married to younger woman. DH already has three kids in their 20s but plans to start having more kids with young wife in the next year or two. The stepmother did not raise the step kids. They were high school/college age when the couple got married.

The husband raised his older kids middle class, paid for college,etc. The wife is from an upper middle class background and intends to raise her family that way. For example, the step kids went to public school but the wife went to private school and will send her own kids to private.

Now adult step kids are asking for more financial assistance. Adult kids see the new upper middle class lifestyle provided by stepmother and think it's unfair. The stepmother works to support her own lifestyle and is also planning financially for her own kids now that step kids are out of college. Step kids will be mid to late twenties when stepmother starts having babies. Is she expected to help support the adult step kids? Should she contribute more to the marriage so DH can use his own money to help out his adult kids? Or should the stepmother just stay out of it and let them work it out for themselves? [/quote]

They are adults. They do not need $from their father.[/quote]

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