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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Did I take the money and run?? What?!

Money rolls downhill. My grandparents paid for my parents' college education and then my parents paid for mine. I fully intend to pay for my 3 kids' colleges. They never expected anything of me, but I did say thank you. I think all any parent wants is for their kids to grow up and live a productive life. I'm not sure I felt entitled to it at the time, but currently I feel like you shouldn't bring children into the world unless you can support them.

I'm very close to my parents. I doubt they'll ever need money, but I would care for them if something arose. I don't think they could live with me though.[/quote]

Money doesn’t pay for everything. My elderly, childless relative is finding that out. He is out of state and I do what I can, but often the senior and assisted living apartment people often tell him that things he is asking for and willing to pay for are not available and he need family.

I’m also of the opinion that even if parents can afford it, children should be largely the responsible for paying for college, wedding, and housing. If they are not financially able yet, they may need to wait. So many young people in the DMV are out of touch with the real world. Give them a couple thousand (if you’re able) here and there but the responsibility remains with the person who is going to college, getting married, or buying a house.

As for money rolling down hill, maybe it shouldn’t roll at all.

FWIW I paid for college, house, wedding on my own (the last two with a spouse).[/quote]

I paid for those things as well, but it did not make me a better person. Now that I am a parent myself, I see all of the selfishness of my own mother who prioritized vacations, home renovations, and other crap ahead of helping us kids through college, and I am appalled.

No one asks to be born. Since we choose to bring children into this world, and the world is the way it is, it is our responsibility to help them succeed in this world as best we can. If not with college, then trade school or starting a business. Of course not every family can afford to do that, but parents who can afford it but won’t are the worst, especially because those kids are worse off than kids of poor families in terms of getting financial aid for college.
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