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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Almost 80% take loans for college and almost 99.9% pay for grad school on their own. Young people have too much debt to help parents because parents don't pay for their education.[/quote]

Source? My hunch is that their is a selection bias in grad school and higher percentage of grad students are not paying for grad school than your post suggests.  Lots of trust fund kids get PhDs.  I would've. [/quote]

Hard agree. Maybe they are “paying” for their own grad school but what does that really mean when their parents help with down payment, mortgage, childcare, and there is no expectation of having to save for retirement in your 20s/30s because of anticipated retirement.

Like other posters I also recognize OP from other posts. Are you East Asian or mostly around East Asians OP? It seems like you want validation that not helping out your parents is “normal.” No one can give you that validation but yourself. All you are doing here is trying to get assurance that those helping out their parents are somehow the abnormal ones doing something wrong.

Honestly, you said that your parents supported you for longer than your peers through no fault of your own. Was it their fault then? If you deserve a “break” don’t they deserve one too for supporting you longer than normal? And if the “break” in your culture is being supported by their kids vs. not having to support them………………[/quote]

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