Daughter sues parent for College Tuition and wins.

[MrPickins]

Read through this hypocritical bullshit that the mom wrote on her blog.

After her mom married again to someone who was probably rich Caitlyn basically was nothing more than "objectified success" to her parents and put into lots of "success programs" when she was in school. And when you get to her life after 18 you basically find out that her parents used money that she would need for schooling to threaten her into allowing them to control everything in her life even though she was legally adult and they had no more legal control over her. She was basically made to live as a legal adult in a freedom-restricted "blue law" environment that was run by religious type value platforms.

The ones with entitlement are the parents who think that their kids exist only to serve their psychological and conspicuous societal needs. They seem to not want to need to do real parenting and understand how to raise kids with real souls and emotions.

http://mcgarvey24.wordpress.com/2014/11/06/the-age-of-entitlement/

The girl could do what I and a lot of other people have done: move the fuck out and be your own person.

 

[Belegost]

I can see myself doing something along the lines of making them work for it and then paying off the debt afterwards. It depends on the child. They need to be motivated in different ways. What I will not do though is have them saddled in debt and dead broke until they're in their 30's.

I had two college experiences.

1. Studied at a major European University in a capital city. Education was free and the books were paid for with a small stipend which was really not needed since the books were so cheap. I had an office assistant job that paid $10/hr it was enough for me to have a tiny one room apt ($400/mo) in the city, go to the bars and clubs on the weekend, have a girlfriend, spend $900 to go interrailing and see most of Europe during the summers. I ate ramen and fish sticks, I had no furniture but a mattress on the floor, a bookshelf, a kitchen table, and 4 chairs. It was ok. I had fun, I dated, I studied, and a scraped by like a normal college student.

2. Studied at a community college and then transferred to a University in CA. Parents helped me with $14,000, I can't remember but I probably got close to $30,000 in scholarships and grants, and I borrowed $17,000. I had an apt in a terrible part of town for $650-$750/month, a car held together by duct tape and then no car when it died, worked on campus between classes for $10/hr, no clothes, owned no shoes but instead wore flip flops or my old boots from Europe, ate terrible food, had no extra income for anything fun, and a relationship was impossible.

So you tell me. Was I king of my own castle with a silver spoon in my mouth in the first experience? What's wrong with that?

It's not a matter of a lifestyle being wrong or right, it's a matter of demanding another person to pay for that lifestyle being wrong.

 

[doubledeluxe]

Well once again, we can all differ on whether a parent should be responsible for educating their children. We'll be sitting here until the cows come home though if we're going to change anyone's mind. This thread is a great example of people's opinions being shaped by their experiences.

The being "forced" part is just congress making an extension of the logic that you should feed, cloth, and house your children.

 

[Belegost]

Well once again, we can all differ on whether a parent should be responsible for educating their children. We'll be sitting here until the cows come home though if we're going to change anyone's mind. This thread is a great example of people's opinions being shaped by their experiences.

The being "forced" part is just congress making an extension of the logic that you should feed, cloth, and house your children.

You yourself said:

It's pretty simple really. Study and get good grades and you get my help. Don't study and I cut you off.

So you have a point at which you will not support your own children. Why? What right do you have to demand they study and get good grades? Do you not have a responsibility to feed, clothe, and shelter them even if they don't study and get good grades?

 

[doubledeluxe]

You yourself said:

So you have a point at which you will not support your own children. Why? What right do you have to demand they study and get good grades? Do you not have a responsibility to feed, clothe, and shelter them even if they don't study and get good grades?

I also do not believe that everyone should go to school. School is for people who can use it. Some people are simply not cut out for school either intellectually or because they don't put any effort in.