Apparently she had full ride offers her parents passed on. They WANTED the control of paying her tuition . “Comply or we cut you off”
That is total crap. Otherwise, in any normal situation, I have no issue with a parent cutting off a kid at 18. But then they also relinquish the right to bitch about happens later.
I have a hard time picturing any ‘normal’ historical parent prior to doctor Spock thinking they have the right to control the life of an adult child.
Use to happen all the time in the really really old days
Your father would control the family until he died as the patriarch in the Roman Empire.
Some of the deeds and wills from the Plymouth area share some of that.