Hi,
My name is Julie, and I have a sixteen year old daughter. I also have two other children by a different man.
Here is the story .
My daughter doesn’t understand the concept of child support and how it is supposed to be distributed and I feel as if her father has been putting things in her head. She feels as if she’s entitled to the money I’m getting, and she doesn’t understand the concept of paying bills, sending her to school, and buying food for the house directly or indirectly benefit her.
Recently she wrote me a letter which reads.
Dear Mom, I really love you, and I do not want to be disrespectful, but my dad tells me how much he pays you in child supporting he showed me. I just don’t understand how my dad pays $1900.00 in child support, and when I ask for something, you say no. I also know that you use the money my dad sends to take care of Michelle and Thomas. If I ask for something, it is always a problem, and you threaten to take away my phone when I do things you don’t like. If it wasn’t for me being here and my dad paying, I know you wouldn’t be able to keep the house. I feel like you are taking advantage of me living here because I don’t benefit from my father paying child support, and I want to go live with my dad. I hope you don’t make it into a big deal. I do love you, but I believe it’s very unfair .
I am very sad and disappointed that my daughter is thinking this way, and I’m sure she is way better off living with me . How should I handle this situation? Is my daughter being ungrateful and rude ? Am I taking it the wrong way ?
What’s your take ?
