The average American child under 10 technically doesn’t work, but he or she still takes in about $1,360 a year in “allowances, bribes, rewards and gifts.”

That’s about $113 a month, according to a poll from VoucherCloud.com.

About three-fourths of parents dole out a weekly allowance, 61 percent reward good behavior with cash. Furthermore, if they’re not behaving, 55 percent of parents will bribe their kids to shape up—and here’s the kicker—about two-thirds of parents would like to be giving their kids less money. Are their children blackmailing their moms and dads with incriminating pictures? We can only wonder. (Time)

Paul Asay has written for The Washington Post, Christianity Today, Beliefnet.com and The (Colorado Springs) Gazette. He writes about culture for PluggedIn and wrote the Batman book God on the Streets of Gotham (Tyndale). He recently collaborated with Jim Daly, president of Focus on the Family, on his book The Good Dad. He lives in Colorado Springs with wife, Wendy, and his two children. Follow him on Twitter.