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[quote=Anonymous]I don’t understand why you cannot send him 50$ or 100$ as you said you have your own revenue stream. You also said you have young daughters and I see this so much from my friends who still have little ones and we have teens / college. They have NO concept of what is yet to be. I doubt he will feel the same when the two dd go off to school.

Anyway, I say this as someone who worked her own way through college with a small amount of help from parents, please send him some money. Even if only 20$ in the mail. I am older but those days of receiving a 20$ here and there from my mom and grandmothers made a huge difference. It meant I could occasionally go out for pizza with my friends, a movie, new piece of clothing, etc.

Our DS has all paid for but he worked a pt job senior year as he had time and he saved a good bit. He’s just about out and plans to work over Christmas but I have no problem giving him 50$ a month or so. If you are not poor, providing a small allowance for a college student is not unheard of. My parents could not but we can and so I’m happy to do so. This is not the kid whose step-parent was on here saying her DH is footing thousands of dollars in fun money every month!

Ironically, our DS says he does want to work at some point and I’m okay with an on- campus job but not for his freshman year. He has some attention issues and we were worried but he’s doing so well and we are thrilled.

Not beer money, not entitled kids money, but a small stipend- why not? I don’t know your dh, the situation, if he’s mad at you, mad at your ex for not providing, if you are struggling financially, he does not like step son but not to “let” you send a small allowance to your own child seems unnecessarily mean. But maybe more to the story.[/quote]

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