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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think they get less expensive as they get older because they are able to work and earn their own money. My kids are required to work, and they are extremely hard workers. They are also required to either earn scholarships or pay their own way through college. After you turn 18 and you are legally old enough to join the military and fight for your country, you should not need your parents to pay your way through college. [/quote]

For my grandmother's generation, they felt that kids got a lot cheaper after 8th grade, because that's when my GM dropped out of school and started working in the textile factory.  And for my dad's generation, it was about the same -- he ran a small farm on the backlot of my grandparent's house starting when he was about 10 or 12, and was butchering animals and selling them to neighbors during the War (meat that wasn't part of the official rationing system was a good market!).  Even in my siblings' generation, that was sort of true, as my brothers all worked bagging groceries to earn money for their clothes, college, and car.  
So it's all cultural.
But that's not the life most of us are living now.  (Indeed, even with that background, my own parents prohibited me from getting a paid job in high school .... saying that they no longer thought a minimum wage job was a good trade-off, and that my time would be better spent studying to get into a good college. They were probably right -- I went to a much better school than my brothers and make a lot more money now than they do.)[/quote] As an immigrant family, I think it's definitely cultural and values. We also encourage our kids to work; chores at home are required and they don't get money from us to do them. We don't give an allowance, if they want something non-essential and not during a holiday/birthday period, then they have to save up money and buy it for themselves. [/quote]

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