Be it a deadbeat parent with more than enough funds to help their children or spouses making use of their significant other’s dependency on them, economic abuse pervades life and remains a blindspot.
Now listen up! Back in my day, we didn’t have fancy allowance money! We had siblings. Two siblings and a single income for the entire family! And we had to share the single income! You should consider yourself very lucky children!
Me growing up: “Can I get an allowance?”
Parents: “When you get a job.”
30 years later
Me to my kids: “Do you want an allowance?”
Kids: “We actually need a weekly basic income on top of allowance. It’s called socialism, get used to it.”