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[quote=Anonymous]It’s not an “inheritance” if the parents are still alive.

I have spent different amounts on my adult kids at various times according to what was needed at the time. They went to very different types of colleges, so tuitions were different, as were their living expenses. We contributed different amounts for wedding expenses  because there was almost 10 years between weddings, so inflation had occurred.

In my family of origin, my youngest sibling had a car at college, no college loans, and lots of extra expenses paid by my parents while I did not have a car, had loans, and I worked during the school year to pay my extra expenses. Why the difference? Well, partially because my parents no longer had kids at home so they didn’t really need the extra car anymore and partly because their financial circumstances had improved by that time. I didn’t expect them to cough up an equivalent amount of money for me- I was working and married and taking care of myself by then and understood that they could spend their money any way that they pleased. It never would have occurred to me to think that I was entitled to more because they now had more.

I grew up hearing “Life is not fair” from people around me.  Are kids growing up hearing “Life is fair, and when it’s not, make sure you demand fairness” today?
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