In light of readers’ support for charging family members rent (Letters, 10 May), I am considering billing my wife for accommodation. The house is mine and she has a perfectly adequate income. I realise that to let her live rent-free would be a kind of infantilisation. Moreover, she is just someone I happened to meet, not flesh and blood like our adult son, who I’m happy to accommodate gratis.
It’s shocking to read the venial, commercial demands made on family by your correspondents under the guise of “it’s for your own good”. It doesn’t happen in other cultures. No wonder many British parents are shifted into care homes and left lonely and unvisited.
Peter Brown
Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire
