Entitled offspring

[km21]

Is it just me or is the level of entitlement shown by some posters just off the scale?

We have a poster angry at their poor mother because there won’t be an inheritance, another wanting to cut contact with parents because they haven’t offered financial support for pregnancy/ redundancy.

i will always be there for my children but they don’t see me as a branch of their local bank.

You're misrepresenting the content of those threads.

I feel this way sometimes. At other times I think it's much harder for my kids than for me. I expect I will be helping them more than I planned to.

Quite honestly, provided DH and I have what we need, helping our Dc is our main priority. I don’t understand how or why parents wouldn’t want to. Maybe mine are too young and I haven’t yet reached a kind of cooling off of my maternal ardour …

It varies! Generally these entitled posts are coupled with others which indicate a pretty dysfunctional relationship more generally. Some parents are very demanding on their dc, perhaps very opinionated and of course some are extremely wealthy and not afraid to show off. If my parents were insensitive and splashing the cash whilst I struggled to pay for electricity, I think I would be annoyed (one post I read) whereas actually your parents owe you nothing and neither do you owe them (another post was about parents demanding support from dc)

I’ve only read the inheritance one, and the gist of that is the mother is illegally withholding and effectively stealing the OP’s money. Yes the OP is entitled, but in the traditional and legal sense - in the same way I’m entitled when I expect my employer to pay my salary in payday every month.

What a prescient comment. Mine are grown and my maternal ardour has cooled considerably!😁 There just seems to be no end to what parents are expected to do in London, given rents.

The inheritance one the op’s mother is withholding inheritance she has been left. That’s not entitlement in an expectation way. She’s literally entitled to her inheritance

I would say the generations coming up are the least entitled generations ever. We are talking about them not being able to have the basics here, shelter, food, heating, electricity. The struggle for these things, especially shelter, either rented or owned is out of reach for the majority of them. The older generations got these STANDARD things without much trouble compared to the upcoming generations, but the younger generations trying to fight tooth and nail for them is entitled, the world has not got better. Your attitude and ignorance is the problem.

I meant the poster who was angry because her mother rents so therefore doesn’t have a house for her to inherit. Sorry should have been clearer.

Totally get the withheld inheritance is a different situation completely.

in my family the older generations had a much harder time because they were immigrants, so I feel like my dc have it much easier. Obviously not the case for others.

I disagree, I think OP's summary is accurate. But it's an accurate summary of what people have decided to write on the internet today, not necessarily anything more.

I’ve noticed there’s alot of money posts recently. Entitlement is off the scale.. There’s been posters saying they stopped care before they were told they weren’t being left any money when they died.

Ah yes… well rents would trouble me. That could burn through an inheritance.

But I honestly think we will be keen to try to help with the property ladder. Maybe not. I shall have to wait and see…

Haha! They have their mobile phones, nail treatments, takeaway coffees, meals out.. all expensive luxuries. They could try going without snd, you know, saving.

I agree wholeheartedly with this, it makes me desperately sad that my children will struggle to have the basics on even a reasonable salary the way things are going