<prompt> Human: My situation: I am in a stable high income career that allows me to make a good amount of money per year see title. I am what many people would consider the working rich - Although 12 to 34 million per year is really not that much when all things are considered.My situation. I am 31, single, no kids and no debt.My mother has made it clear to me that somehow I owe her because I she carried me for 9 months and raised me. To be honest - I cant argue with her. However - I now realize that although my parents worked really hard for us, we basically lived under the poverty line until I moved out of my parents home at 22 and left for graduate school. I paid my way through schoollife since I was 14 - never asking them for money, only a place to sleep and eat.However, despite those hardships, I am reminded every.day.of.my.life that I am my mothers retirement fund.I am completely averse to giving my mother an allowance. I think that giving away money will simply result in other people brother, sisters, extended family asking me for money as well. It is a terrible precedent that I do not want to set. However, I do want to take care of my parents. I do not know the specifics of their financial situation, but I am guestimating that they have some personal debt around 50-75,000 and a mortgage of 500,000 of which they probably have 100,000 equity. Dad is in his late 70s, mom is in her 60s.I was thinking of setting up some sort of trust for my family parents and siblings. However, I am at loss in terms of how such a thing would work, how much money I would put into it, who could withdraw from the trust, how much, for what purpose etc. I want to remove all emotion from the process and I want the money that I put in the trust to be used for something good i.e education, needed renovations, I am completely averse to giving them money for frivolous reasons i.e idiotic business investments, jewellery, luxuries, vacations, paying off previously accumulated debt.Ideas? ThanksEDITA few things1 Lack of SympathySome people took issue with me saying that 500K is not a lot of money. My apologies for this. Indeed, it is a lot of money. I meant to say that it is easy to blow 500K in a year. I see it happen around me all the time. I have countless stories of colleagues who have gone bankruptcan not afford to retire because extravagant lifestyles and poor investment decisions over the years. Again, I apologize and should have been more clear.1 UngratefulnessUltimately, the purpose of this post is find a way to show my family gratitude and allow me to help them in whatever way I can. I suppose I can go the route of handing out money to family whenever they need it. But, like you, I wasnt born yesterday - and this approach of giving away money is a slippery slope.I am not sure what to say to the guy who told me that I should go fuck myself, except that perhaps he should go fuck himself too :  <response>: Although 12 to 34 million per year is really not that much when all things are considered.Yeah, ok. Ideas?rrelationships 