<p>It really depends on how much sacrifice it is going to take for your family. If your parents are overstressed already and on the brink of financial disaster, none of them are worth the debacle that paying more than they can afford, taking out more loans than they should, can occur. </p>
<p>I’ve been told stories that are supposed to be heart warming of parents working 3 jobs, scrubbing floors, digging privys, sacrificing this and that, and they do not warm my heart at all, but give me a chill. No way in the world would I have wanted to put my parents through that. My father did not live long after my college graduation and for him to have had to work and sacrifice so much in those last few years for me would have broken something in me. That my mother was left as financially hurting as she was, was bad enough. Had there been less due to my college, it certainly would not have been worth it to me. Even if they were so into college prestige that they insisted that it was worth it. I’d rather have them around and be able to be comfortably living.</p>