Personally I was charged 'board' from my mam soon as I had a job and so where all my siblings, and this was years ago when everything was alot cheaper, and it wasn't that much. But I thoughrally disagree with it and the whole concept of it in most scenarios to be honest. Not that I think it didn't me any harm really but I just think it's kind of outrageous as a concept. You literally chose to have a baby, because you decided to have a baby this whole entire human exists and had to then support themselves in life at some point regardless of their own health or wellbeing and in whatever state the world ends up in 18 years after you made that decision to have a baby. Like that's your responsibility end of, and the world we live in now seems fucking impossible for young people to try and enjoy and live their youths in, I thought it was quite hard for me as an older millenial once I hit adulthood, unemployment being high, few opportunities in my area for young people to earn any kind of decent money, but I actually was alright, I paid my board, had a good amount of nights/days out with friends and honestly just ended up out living on my own very young, I didn't go on holidays abroad or have any kind of technology, was buzzing with a free view box for my telly and a fridge full of cans. Life isn't like that anymore, for young people working entry level jobs, paying board proberly takes alot away from them enjoying their youth, which we all know is gone before we know it. They as a generation are higher maintenence, society has made it that way too, they're funds are likely tight as fuck, you don't need that £30 a week or whatever your charging really. You'll manage, your their mother, you should WANT to look after them while you can, let them enjoy this brief period of time where they're young and can be carefree but also young adults and have experiences.

For me, it's fine but like when I was 18-28 whether I was living at my mams, nanas, or in my own flat I always had to part with a sizable chunk of whatever I was earning (literally worked like 2-3 jobs, 6-7 days a week in them days) for living expenses, and yeh that's life, and there was alot of people worse off than me but all my friends who where girls didn't have to pay board, usually had stuff like haircuts, tampons, razors covered by their parents and most even had driving lessons paid for, stuff that kept them together and got them firther in life, leaving their money from working for experianxes and in those years I spent ALOT of weekends alone while my friends went to music fesitvals, on trips abroad, would be working half the time when they'd have nights out, I always from the minute school ended had bills to pay. I just always wished I could have had that softer introduction to adulthood that they had. Most boys I grew up with paid board though, but most girls didn't and I'd say me and the guys (atleast that I grew up with) are way more distant from our parents/family than my girlfriends, for me I think it made me feel unloved, not supported, a burden, hence leaving at the earliest age and making even bigger bills for myself.

But know the other hand I moved in with my nan in my 20s for a couple years because I was skint and I couldn't give her enough, she was a pensioner. Not my mother, she didn't choose to have me, but she tried to support me more than I even wanted her to, I insisted because she was poor. My mother was middle class as fuck and never gave me nothing once I hit 16. Guess who I visited twice a week the rest of her life and guess who I may visit once a year, despite me living 2 streets away from her. Meanwhile my best friend recently moved her dad in with her in Canada, she's now looking after him, which to be fair is fair enough he literally paid her way through uni, helped with rent for years and bought her first car, worked out though. All the kids I grew up with who we'd all say where 'spoilt' (proberly trying to make ourselves feel better) ended up having very nice, successful lives and have close knit families. You really can't spoil kids, you can be a shitty parent in many ways but when it comes to supporting your offspring there's no such thing as too much, spoiling kids, paying board being good for them, it's all myths created by lazy tight parents looking to shake responsibility in my opinion. Just support the human being you literally forced into the world becayse you wanted a cute little playful baby once upon a time, that fat hairy man they turned into is literally yours and your responsibility end of, otherwise your really just a shitty selfish person.