The Week contest: IOU mom

Last week's question: A Toronto mother has handed her live-in 23-year-old son an itemized bill for $39,254.17 for "services issued free of charge," including a $1,000 fee for being "totally unappreciative of your mother's support." If an angry mom were to start a debt collection agency that recouped parents' money from slacker kids, what name could she give the business?
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THE WINNER: The Hand That Docks the Cradled
Ken Kellam III, Dallas
SECOND PLACE: Prodigal Sums
Marc Wright, Denton, Maryland
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THIRD PLACE: Maternal Revenue Service
Simeon Cohen, New York City
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
Kids "O" Us
Bill O'Meara, Bedford, New Hampshire
Mère-do-well
Gerry Shattuck, Haydenville, Massachusetts
The Born Ultimatum
Susan Zepeda, Louisville, Kentucky
No Free Launch
David Carmichael, El Paso, Texas
Show Me the Mommy
Suzanne Brooks, Quechee, Vermont
Billing the Kid
Jerry Yurow, North Bethesda, Maryland
Cradle to Knave
Tim Mistele, Coral Gables, Florida
I Kid You Not Collection Company
Gillian Hugo, Medford, New Jersey
Repo Mam
Bill Trecker, Columbus, Ohio
MADD: Mothers Against Deadbeat Descendants
Sally Cors, Reston, Virginia
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