Whose responsibility is it to fund your child’s college education?

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3 kids (now 18 HS Sr, 19 Coll Soph, 23 Coll Sr)

Both of us (parents) are college grads, I paid my own way, my wife’s family paid for her.

As soon as our kids knew what college was they knew that

  1. Community College is first - allows you to learn, explore and get an idea of what you want to do
  2. If you do well at CC, your options will be greater
  3. We would be paying for their academics
  4. If they wanted to live on campus and “have the college experience” that the extra expenses would be on them

Grad school is 100% their costs.

If we had one kid (or spaced them out differently) and lived in a very low cost of living area, the answer might be different.