She never made and will never make enough money to pay them back. Not counting for the emotional duress and whatever psychological scares she caused to those people, there was a lot of money used on "raising" her.
- she has lived on other people's houses, rent free, since she was 18. Only recently Amber began to pay rent (how old was she when she and Destiny moved out on their own? I'll be generous and say she was 23. That means she spent 5 years - at least - mooching off her girlfriends families),
- According to Kasey, and this is corroborated by FB posts by Amber, she was demanding gifts and money from girls she hadn't even met IRL,
- I don't know who paid for her to go to Arizona, but it wouldn't surprise me if it was Kasey's mother. Krystle's parents paid for her to move to Virginia (including the taxi ride from Kasey's house to the airport). One of Destiny's relatives drove Amber to Florida,
- I suspect that Destiny was pretty much footing all the bills as soon as she got a job in Kentucky, and kept on doing so until Amber moved in with Becky. IIRC Destiny was still paying Amber's phone bill after she moved in with Becky.
For at least 5 years strangers fed, housed and put clothes on her back. They also drove her around, took her to doctors' appointments and paid for any medicine she needed. Those people also paid for all the fluff Amber wanted (and probably threw tantrums until she got them) like makeup and "jewelry".
According to the
first result I got from Google, it takes an average of $13.900/year to have a teenager. A
normal teenager who doesn't eat a whole giant pizza on their own, nor needs 6X clothes.