<p>^ I liked Bay’s response; concise and true.</p>
<p>In fact, I found the position (apparently from students, but I could be mistaken) that you have to let your child choose or he’ll hate you forever (I’m paraphrasing) to be odd.</p>
<p>When I went to college at age 17, my parents told me I had to stay in-state. It did not cross my mind to either argue or hate them forever. In fact, when I talked to my parents about going to Florida with some girlfriends over spring break as a college senior, and they said no because they felt it wasn’t safe, the concept that I could have argued with them or just gone anyway since I was over 18 by then popped into my mind when reading CC, lo these 30 years later. I rejected the idea immediately.</p>