Possible Clues:

• Relating to mother and father
• Friend collecting a payment as one looking after the kids?
• Like a mother say, or a father with something hired
• Mum's and dad's friend stifling a tear
• Yearly cost for housing of some older relatives
• Paternal, perhaps?
• Like Ma and Da aren't interrupting a friend!
• Torn between father and a love initially of mother?
• Pertaining to Mother's cost for hiring Father?
• Each year, cost of accommodation of older generation