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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]If your parents paid for your expensive college [/b]and grad school & living expenses for you and bought you a starter home, are you obligated to support them in their retirement? Would there be an expectation?[/quote]

If the success you are experiencing is [i]because[/i] your parents paid for college, then yes, you do owe them reimbursement in the event that they need it. Although my parents did pay for my college, I didn't need to go to college in order to have the job I have now. The career I'm in is one I could've started as soon as I graduated high school. However, in my family, going to college wasn't even a question. Even all 4 of my grandparents got some sort of college degree. By the time I was a senior in high school, my parents had successfully brainwashed me into thinking college was the only way to be successful.

My social circle didn't help either. Everyone who went to my high school went on to have their college education paid for by their families. You can't expect a teenager under that much peer/family pressure to even consider the fact that they might not have to waste their parents' money on a college education to be successful in the long-run.

So, considering that my parents were the ones who insisted that I go to college, I don't feel like I owe them anything. It's not like I got down on my knees and begged them for a college education. If anything, I resent the fact that 4 years of potential earnings for have been wasted; 4 precious years that I can never get back. [/quote]

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