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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Human brains aren’t fully developed until around 25.  And people expect 18 year olds to make good life decisions. They need guidance.

My parents paid for my college and graduate school. I worked very hard. When I got out, I picked my work opportunities without being forced because of a crushing debt.

Education is so important.  [/quote]

Sure. But your parents had the means to pay for it - and grad school!! So you don't come from a typical family or situation. My mom was a widow who lived on SS and a tiny plumbers pension. My father died when I was in kindergarten. DH's parents had very middle class jobs - school admin office and car factory labor worker; his dad took on a side business, but still he and his sibling took on significant loans for undergrad.

For those of us coming from families who couldn't swing it, played catch up, AND now college tuition is considerably more relative to household income, we might have gotten more prestigious jobs so to speak, but still not necessarily able to swing paying full tuition for our kids. This is where UMC stay UMC and MC still struggle to climb any further.

It's the donut hole.[/quote]

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