You reap what you sow. Dominique Moceanu (the scrappy little gymnast and former millionaire) has decided that her parents are not fulfilling their obligations as parents or business managers.

This week she decided to fire them from both positions.

Now, it is all well and good to start talking about the decline of values in Western society and how kids have been given far too much leeway.

We could argue that “divorcing your parents” is extreme, and that children should not be encouraged by lawyers to seek their independence prematurely.

But the fact is, these people need to get as far away from each other as possible.

If you raise your children to be your meal ticket, you have to expect that one day the meal ticket is going to get smart enough to start demanding a greater share of the profits.

Especially if that ticket is doing all of the work.

Dominique’s parents raised her to perform at peak levels, to rake in the big bucks and get everyone set up on easy street — except for Dominique.

She is out a $4 million dollar trust fund which seems to have found its way into several different business ventures under the name Moceanu Gymnastics Inc.

How offensive.

What a betrayal of the fundamental bond between parents and their children.

Most of us were expected to do a few chores around the house or farmwork for the family interest.

But to be your parents’ primary source of income — and then to have them take your last dime for their own — is a violation of all that is sacred.

The Moceanu’s deserve everything they get thrown at them in the next few months.

They raised a business interest and not a child.

Oftentimes parents shift gears from encouraging children in their interests to forcing them into lives of near slavish devotion to a sport in the hopes that the children will be prodigies.

Making your child take piano lessons because it is good for development as a human being is a far cry from making her live in a gym and smacking her up for getting saucy about her indentured status.

If there is a lesson to be learned from all of this hullabaloo, it has to be that if you want to raise a world-class meal ticket, be prepared for a world-class lawsuit.