I hope the kids have made dad known that they will not support him if he is infirm or destitute in his old age. And don’t knock on the door with suitcase in hand.
It’s idiots like you who caused the price of a college education to increase 500% since 1985.
In the culture I was raised in (in the USA), no parents ever pay for college for their kids and all parents are well taken care of in their old age. Nursing homes only used for extreme cases of dementia, etc.
So refusing to pay for a child’s college cancels out the years from 0-18 of food, clothing, shelter, medical care and elementary and secondary education? A child who would turn away his/her parent in their old age, after being cared for as a child, is worse than a pagan.
“I hope the kids have made dad known that they will not support him if he is infirm or destitute in his old age. “
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Apples and oranges. Taking care of someone who can’t take care of themselves is much different than college tuition.
I’m sure these parents wouldn’t kick the kids aside if they were physically unable to care for themselves.
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My husband and I put everything into our kids for 18+ years. We did what we could to give them a good start.
But aren’t they supposed to be mature, self-reliant adults at that point?
Neither of our parents helped us out much at all. (If at all!) It made us better.
Yes. We’re helping my mom out. Because she busted her butt for me for 18 years and she’s my mom.
No. My ADULT children have no right to our money and support. And, by the way, if we pay for them now, we’re going to *need* to move in with them when we retire because we will be too poor to survive without their help.
At some point, young men and women must walk on their own two feet.