<p>Why did you even have kids if you weren't going to be able to pay for their education? So they can keep you company until they're 18 and then they're worthless?</p>
<p>People should put their young in front of themselves. If everyone who put retirement as a higher priority than their child's education were shot, then the human race would be better off on an evolutionary standpoint.</p>
<p>Lol, because some parents can't afford to pay it. Jesus, get out of your sheltered little life and start to look at other families. My dad helps as much as he can, but give me a break its MY education I'm no baby anymore and I always expected to pay for it. </p>
<p>Here's my proposition, college students should take initiative and start doing things on their own, get a job and stop expecting their parents to do everything for them.</p>
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<p>Good idea. It sure would have prevented selfish brats like yourself from being born, wouldn't it?</p>
<p>Grow up.</p>
<p>You'd be entitled to make sure the door didn't hit you in the rear on your way out if you were my kid!</p>
<p>Random...stuff happens. Parents who raise their children in a loving environment are the ones who matter. The amount of money they spend does not. </p>
<p>When the kidlets were born, families may have had circumstances or lifes' aspirations that went differently than planned. Some families find their financial circumstances VERY different than what they had hoped for. It doesn't help that right now, there is a bit of a recession going on and folks are being very careful about their spending.</p>
<p>Keep in mind, also, that when you were born 18 years ago, college costs were a small fraction of what they are now. The cost of my son's college tuition went up about $10,000 in the four years that HE was in attendance. College costs have escalated...and for some incomes have not. I know that the pay increases in THIS household have not held pace with the %age of tuition increases we have seen since our younger child enrolled in college. Add to that the costs of property taxes, consumable goods, health care.</p>
<p>Your family decision about college funding is YOUR family decision. The sad part here, is that folks tend to compare themselves to the financial situations they perceive others have. No one knows what is happening behind closed doors. Perhaps a family business closed. Perhaps the house is close to being foreclosed upon. Perhaps creditors are at the door step. Perhaps there is a health situation with an elder or immediate family member.</p>
<p>I wonder...with regard to these "entitlement" ideas...how many youngsters of families with the means (i.e. higher incomes) would have been willing to forego the wonderful things their families did provide them with...a nice home in a good school district, family vacations, later model cars, etc. IF the parents had said "gee...we're using that money instead to provide you with a college education."</p>
<p>Just a thought about entitlement. At least my kids are grateful for what they have....even if it isn't always what they WANT.</p>
<p>I'm not planning on paying for my kids education, so I can't blame my parents.</p>
<p>random is a TROLL</p>
<p>^^^finally, someone else has realized that, too...</p>
<p>Random, dear, I am sure your parents love you, deep down. hahahahaha</p>
<p>Now, seriously, think of those kindly parents who scrimped and saved - who haven't had a raise since Junior was 11. These nice folks are now taking care of their own parents, too. I can't wait 20 years to read your blog: "Ohh, why are my old parents still alive?? Why did they waste all their money to send me to college? Why weren't they thinking about their retirement?"</p>
<p>The nice folks at your local state government have provided you with a relatively cheap option of Flagship University, where you may attend tuition free if you go ROTC or National Guard.</p>
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And we'd have a lot of orphans in college, because a parent's first job is to make sure that they are not a burden to their children and most parents are responsible enough to take care of this.</p>
<p>And stop trolling. Looking at your posting history, a couple of adcoms messed up because I wouldn't want this mentality as a part of my incoming freshman class. Allegedly coming from a disadvantaged background, you seem to have an entitlement attitude that comes from the rich and shameless.</p>
<p>Rand, does bring up an interesting concept: Either parents attempt to fund retirement so as not to be later burden on kid(s) OR, attempt to fund education and be a burden in retirement on the kid(s) and their spouses.</p>
<p>My parents aren't giving me any money for college and I wouldn't expect them to. I'm old enough to have a job and pay taxes. What the government doesn't provide me with through financial aid, I can pay off in loans with my job because I am an ADULT. Funny concept, isn't it? Get your head out of your a$$.</p>
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randombetch really does believe in entitlement. According to other posts her mother earns $11,000 year, her dad is somehow managing to not contribute, and she has full *need *based rides to some very good schools. I guess this question is directed at her own parents.</p>
<p>^ Then maybe she needs to take a course in responsibility. I know I'm not angry at my parents for not saving any money for me. Perhaps I've been jealous of kids that didn't have to work their way through college, but in my opinion, it builds character. I'm sure she'll live a great life expecting others to do everything for her.</p>
<p>I'm lucky enough to have had parents who saved up for a college fund when I was born, I started working when I was 16 and worked until I reached college, now I just do a ton of overtime in the summers and my parents only tell me i should be working enough hours to pay for gas every week during school... no big deal to me. They help me out with my insurance now that I'm in college which I have paid for since I was 16. oohh the benefits of college :D But hey I still have to pay for my tuition.</p>
<p>What I don't understand is why OP cares what other parents do when she herself has a full-ride to Princeton of all places. There are some deep-seated resentments here I'm guessing aimed at her dad who she states went bankrupt. I'm wondering if there isn't an underlying story here where he has possibly cut them off, and/or is hiding his assets from her mother and herself in some kind of devious divorce ploy. Any kid with the warm fuzzies from their parents wouldn't be making these kinds of posts.</p>
<p>MattsMomFL, this thread is the spawn of the "Shafting" thread; I had made a comment on that other thread about parents funding their retirement ahead of their kids' education fund. I take it the OP didn't like that comment very much, but then, maybe she feels her parents are entitled to have her support them in their old age.</p>
<p>Judging by the OP's threads, she is a talented high school debater from a somewhat dysfunctional family (Mom lives on 11k a year while dad makes 100k)who enjoys getting a rise out of people through outrageous statements. In other words, a budding Karl Rove! How splendid! Notice how she will stir the pot then not respond? Why waste time playing her puerile game? How can we trust all her claims of free rides to Ivy's , etc.? They are all claims which cannot be substantiated, just as likely her fantasy life. But who cares?</p>
<p>merkur - yeah you are right.</p>
<p>her names randombetch. quite fitting</p>