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Buying cars for our difficult children...discussion
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<blockquote data-quote="Lil" data-source="post: 644216" data-attributes="member: 17309"><p>We didn't buy our son a car, but we did buy a 3rd car. The car our son was given privileges to was a 2001 SUV. This was 2-3 years ago. He was told, get a job, pay the insurance and your own gas and when you turn 18 it's yours. He never did. So then when he went to college we said, "Get good grades, get your degree, and in 2 years (it was community college) you'll get the car." He didn't. The car is now parked. He asked if we'd take payments the other day, we didn't say yes or no, but at this point I don't think we'd trust him to pay us. We might sell it cheap if he could get his own loan. That would build his credit and protect us.</p><p></p><p>We live in a small city and the public transportation isn't great. He didn't get his license until he was like 17 or so. He walked a lot.</p><p></p><p>But, I had a car as a kid...in my parent's name in high school, but it was still "my" car; one my brother (4 years older) drove before me and my mom drove before him. In college (2nd year) I got my own car. My parents paid for it, but I forfeited a cow and calf to them (obviously a farm kid), still...even the cow and calf had been given to me by them, so it isn't like I was out any money at all. It just kind of never occurred to me to not give my son access to a car. </p><p></p><p>Of course, until he was 17, the term difficult child really didn't apply. He was difficult, but not really trouble.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lil, post: 644216, member: 17309"] We didn't buy our son a car, but we did buy a 3rd car. The car our son was given privileges to was a 2001 SUV. This was 2-3 years ago. He was told, get a job, pay the insurance and your own gas and when you turn 18 it's yours. He never did. So then when he went to college we said, "Get good grades, get your degree, and in 2 years (it was community college) you'll get the car." He didn't. The car is now parked. He asked if we'd take payments the other day, we didn't say yes or no, but at this point I don't think we'd trust him to pay us. We might sell it cheap if he could get his own loan. That would build his credit and protect us. We live in a small city and the public transportation isn't great. He didn't get his license until he was like 17 or so. He walked a lot. But, I had a car as a kid...in my parent's name in high school, but it was still "my" car; one my brother (4 years older) drove before me and my mom drove before him. In college (2nd year) I got my own car. My parents paid for it, but I forfeited a cow and calf to them (obviously a farm kid), still...even the cow and calf had been given to me by them, so it isn't like I was out any money at all. It just kind of never occurred to me to not give my son access to a car. Of course, until he was 17, the term difficult child really didn't apply. He was difficult, but not really trouble. [/QUOTE]
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