18yr Old wants to sue parents to pay for her college...

[Hal_Jordan]

She is either really really attractive, or at the least she thinks she's really really attractive.

 

[PyroChamber]

She does look kinda *****y.

 

[Feenix]

Why should parents who have worked and saved all their lives be expected to pay for their ungrateful brat to go to college?

Not to mention she's been badmouthing her parents claiming her dad is "inappropriate" with her, and other accusations.

Many 18 year olds have paid their way through college, it's not easy, but it can be done. Or you have the option of not going to college and getting a job. This lazy, spoiled brat doesn't want to either of those options.

They created that ungrateful brat. Also, don't have kids if you're not willing to put money aside for them to go to college. If you have a dream in life to be a doctor (with the tuition at what it is right now), there's no way you can work through school, achieve good grades, AND pay off your student loans without help. As Teelie and JJJ have said, the times have changed from the way our parents lived to the way we live. College is more expensive, living is more expensive, food is more expensive, and wages haven't changed enough to reflect the growing prices of survival.

As for the second "option" of not going to college and working, do you realize how many good paying jobs require diplomas and degrees? The times are gone when you can move up to the top of a company without a college degree. Unless you're going into a trade (which still requires schooling to a degree), good luck finding a job that will allow you to save up for a new car or a home or hell, even retirement.

Baby boomers had the luxury of their hardworking parents. They don't see the irony in expecting their kids to work their hands to the bone when they didn't even have to.

 

[PemLam]

You sound exactly like the parents who can't accept that their era is no longer our era. The world does not work the way it used to but go on believing otherwise. No one is saying as you assert, that her parents should keep footing the bill but then you also can't wrap your head around the fact that the cost of living has skyrocketed whereas the money earned has plummeted.

Is that what we're doing, making BS assertions now? Wow, then I guess that makes you one of the entitlement kids that thinks you deserve everything handed to you just because life is harder now than what you think it used to be. See, I can make half-***** assertions too.

I believe kids should respect their parents and abide by the rules their parents have set when living under their roof and being financially taken care of. If that's considered a different era, then hell yes, I'm from a different era.

As far as the world being different, I fully understand that time marches on and that a lot of things aren't as they used to be. I have a family, career, home, bills, and kids I plan to help put through college one day, so I probably have a far better grasp on the cost of living than many of the people on these boards; that being said, keep thinking what you will.

 

[Feenix]

Is that what we're doing, making BS assertions now? Wow, then I guess that makes you one of the entitlement kids that thinks you deserve everything handed to you just because life is harder now than what you think it used to be.

That's not what Teelie is saying at all.

You're bad at this.

 

[Destructus86]

I won't be paying for my kid to go through college. If he wants to go to public college (which I am totally fine with) i'll help pay for some of his expenses, but if he wants to go to a university he's going to have to pay off his own loan.

 

[PemLam]

That's not what Teelie is saying at all.

You're bad at this.

No, I can read perfectly well. Teelie and I just have differing opinions on a few things.

 

[Feenix]

I won't be paying for my kid to go through college. If he wants to go to public college (which I am totally fine with) i'll help pay for some of his expenses, but if he wants to go to a university he's going to have to pay off his own loan.

Ah, punishing kids for wanting an education.

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

I won't be paying for my kid to go through college. If he wants to go to public college (which I am totally fine with) i'll help pay for some of his expenses, but if he wants to go to a university he's going to have to pay off his own loan.

Pick himself up by the ole bootstraps, eh? What a wonderful parent you'll make! There won't be any issues of lingering resentment there later on.

 

[Evelisse]

I don't think anyone is saying the world hasn't changed, and yes the cost of education and cost of living are out of whack. Bottom line is, if parents choose to fully pay or assist their children to go to college, it should totally be up to the parents. It can't just be, well don't have kids if you don't plan on paying for their higher education, some reasons being that not all children are planned, and not all hard working parents can be considered well off to afford to do that. I personally would never want to put any more financial burden on my parents than I've had to growing up.

From what I read, her parents were more than willing to play a part in further supporting her, just follow their house rules (which all sounded completely reasonable), she has made a bad life choice. I just hope that as a family they can work things out through counseling.

 

[Destructus86]

Pick himself up by the ole bootstraps, eh? What a wonderful parent you'll make! There won't be any issues of lingering resentment there later on.

It's called making sure he doesn't feel entitlment like so many kids nowadays.
It's really not the parents responsibility to pay for the child when he's an adult with a job and a life of his own.

 

[Hal_Jordan]

They created that ungrateful brat.

Not necessarily. Some kids are raised fine and one brother is a total failure while the other succeeds. It's not ALWAYS the parents' fault. This girl didn't like living under her parents rules, so she moved out. Fine, good for her. The problem with this girl is that she wanted to move out and still get the free ride. That's not how it works.

Also, don't have kids if you're not willing to put money aside for them to go to college. If you have a dream in life to be a doctor (with the tuition at what it is right now), there's no way you can work through school, achieve good grades, AND pay off your student loans without help.

That's not necessarily true either. What about parents who can't afford to do that, or planned on doing that and it just didn't work out because of extenuating circumstances? Kids can still pay for their own college, through loans, grants, student aid, etc. It's not easy though.

As Teelie and JJJ have said, the times have changed from the way our parents lived to the way we live. College is more expensive, living is more expensive, food is more expensive, and wages haven't changed enough to reflect the growing prices of survival.

Times are different, it's a lot harder, but it's still not impossible.

As for the second "option" of not going to college and working, do you realize how many good paying jobs require diplomas and degrees? The times are gone when you can move up to the top of a company without a college degree. Unless you're going into a trade (which still requires schooling to a degree), good luck finding a job that will allow you to save up for a new car or a home or hell, even retirement.

Again, what if the parents cant afford college? The kid just gives up?

Baby boomers had the luxury of their hardworking parents. They don't see the irony in expecting their kids to work their hands to the bone when they didn't even have to.

A lot of them did have to work hard too.

I agree with it generally being harder to go to college and get a job, but this girl is just ridiculous, and it is not her parents responsibility to cater to her every whim.

For starters her lawyer(her friends dad), should be disbarred for not reporting her parents to child protective services if he really believed what they are accusing her dad of. This case is ridiculous, and all about $$$ for an ungrateful little brat.

 

[Hal_Jordan]

Ah, punishing kids for wanting an education.

Are parents supposed to bankrupt themselves to pay for college?

 

[Feenix]

No, but if they can help, they should, in any way.

Like I said before, the average Canadian is $30,000 in debt (mostly student loans). As a parent, if you don't help your kid out as much as you can and they end up living the rest of their life in debt, what kind of parent does that make you?

The option of not going to post secondary is fast becoming not an option. A good paying job nowadays requires some degree of education.

Loans and student aid are not that easy to get. And see my comment above about paying off loans and trying to survive in an increasingly expensive world.

 

[PemLam]

From what I read, her parents were more than willing to play a part in further supporting her, just follow their house rules (which all sounded completely reasonable), she has made a bad life choice. I just hope that as a family they can work things out through counseling.

This.

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

For all the talk of "entitlement" and "bankrupting the parents", not one person on the other side has explained why it's easier for an 18 year old kid to pay for college than two people in their 50's who have been working and saving for three decades. I think many kids are entitled these days, but I don't think expecting your parents to financially help you through college is being entitled.

 

[PemLam]

For all the talk of "entitlement" and "bankrupting the parents", not one person on the other side has explained why it's easier for an 18 year old kid to pay for college than two people in their 50's who have been working and saving for three decades. I think many kids are entitled these days, but I don't think expecting your parents to financially help you through college is being entitled.

It's not easier and I'd like to think most parents that have the capability to financially support their children's college would in fact do that....but there's a difference between a child still living at home expecting you to help pay for college and one in this circumstance who chooses to leave your home because they don't want to respect your rules and still expects you to help.

 

[Hal_Jordan]

It's not easier and I'd like to think most parents that have the capability to financially support their children's college would in fact do that....but there's a difference between a child still living at home expecting you to help pay for college and one in this circumstance who chooses to leave your home because they don't want to respect your rules and still expects you to help.

That's my problem with this girl, and any other kids who think that this is acceptable.

You don't want to live by their rules, fine. You don't get their help. There are plenty of kids who go to college and flunk out for whatever bad decisions or choices they make. It's not unreasonable for the parents to try to protect their investment by putting in place rules to keep the kid from failing and potentially wasting a ton of their money.

 

[I'm Old Greg]

People in this time are only fending for themselves.
This is what it has come down.

We need to change things. They keep us beaten down until we have no other choice but to work minimum wage jobs with no aspirations in life.

 

[I'm Old Greg]

Nah shes just like most East Coasters they don't give a F about you, anyone buy themselves.

Hell shes suing her parents. Point proven.

 

[Teelie]

For all the talk of "entitlement" and "bankrupting the parents", not one person on the other side has explained why it's easier for an 18 year old kid to pay for college than two people in their 50's who have been working and saving for three decades. I think many kids are entitled these days, but I don't think expecting your parents to financially help you through college is being entitled.

It's called tough love.

 

[Spider-Who?]

Nah shes just like most East Coasters they don't give a F about you, anyone buy themselves.

Hell shes suing her parents. Point proven.

Wut.

 

[Feenix]

That really is a picture of her? I thought it was a picture of Erika Christensen:

Spoiler

 

[Teelie]

And just a reminder to the older folks who don't remember so well, this is what college looks like today.

 

[Destructus86]

And just a reminder to the older folks who don't remember so well, this is what college looks like today.

This is exactly why I don't believe in going to a university (unless you absolutely need it. i.e, doctor, lawer, etc..) Otherwise, community college is more than good enough. I know plenty of people doing great financially that went to community college and you know what? They don't have a loan to pay off. They have zero debt aside from rent and utilities.