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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There's something so inherently wrong with grown, self supporting adult children demanding their parents pay for the entirety of a trip (with time and place are factored) otherwise they refuse to go. Most of you see it as a gift to your parents if you attend. Hopefully this is just the "entitled DC" crowd and not the norm. [/quote]

What’s entitled is assuming your grown children want to vacation with you in a place you chose, and that they also want to pay for the privilege to do so! Now THAT’s entitled! I’m perfectly fine paying for my OWN vacations. That’s not what this is.[/quote]

Exactly.  When I finally put my foot down and said I was no longer staying in the DIRTY condo they wanted us to use (because it was next to the very nice one they rented) and that our family of 4 needed our own place, it caused massive drama.  We paid for our own condo!  No one was paying!  We just got a different one in the same building that didn't have 40 year old, never cleaned carpet inside.  They picked the place, and I had to pay and it was RIDICULOUS how much drama there was.

So no, I will not do that to my kids when they are adults.[/quote]

This is not at all what the original ask was. No one is suggesting you pony up time and money to go on a vacation that others make miserable for you. That is a entirely different scenario. The ask is if Parents are always required to pay for their adult children even if they go where you say to and during the time frame you tell them as well.  There is a resounding Yes, they are always required to pay for the "gift" of your presence.  [/quote]

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