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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I tell my HS age daughter that when she is ready to have children, we will do everything to help.  Most successful families use a combination of[b] financial and in-person help from grandparents.  [/b]Women who only rely on themselves either suffer setbacks in their career or marriage or their childrearing, especially if children are not perfectly healthy since infancy.  We will do our best to support her.  We are not rich, middle class yet not upper middle.  However, my husband and I are both good with babies.  If she has fire in her belly to pursue a career, we will support her

[b]College tuition, on the other hand?  Scholarships and loans.[/b] No one supported me, and it set me.back all right.[/quote]

I don't get this? Are you saying if she pursues motherhood you're good with kids so will help out and help the kids, maybe even financially, but if she pursues a professional career it's on her to take out a ton of loans and start out in life with a whole bunch of debt?

And fire in her belly to pursue a career...unless you're totally loaded, I think every girl should have fire to pursue a career. Even if they quit and become a SAHM for the rest of their lives after 30 they should at least have SOME ambition I would think...[/quote]

Yeah I don't get this either. Support her to go to college and then she can support her own kids and not rely on a man. It's weird to encourage her to have babies.

Student loan debt is crushing and most people my age (early 30s) waited to have kids because of it. [/quote]

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