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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wouldn’t pay 50K a year for my kid to major in humanities and I would discourage them doing it too, but by the time my kid picks a major they’re an adult. I’m not going to micromanage their decisions, especially a big one like that that they will have to live with, not me. [/quote]

18 year olds aren’t adults. The prefrontal cortex doesn’t fully develop until 25. [/quote]

I don’t define adult as “somebody with a fully developed prefrontal cortex,” but still, most 18 year olds who have chosen a major change course at some point.

But the main thing is that it is their life! They have to live with the consequences of picking the major that they do, not me. So I am not going to interfere. (I am white and raised in the United States though, so I know that my decisions on this are colored by that background). [/quote]

NP. It sure as hell isn’t their life if I’m the one paying for their college. [/quote]

I don't use money as a control mechanism, but you do you.  [/quote]

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