| Charity begins at home
I've been thinking more and more about this since I saw the first post. And I find that I have a problem with the original poster's assumption that just because their family has been making sizable charitable donations all along to various organizations, they believe that other people who they probably don't even know should be the ones whose sizable charitable donations will fund their child's education.
Does it not make more sense that this family should do what they can to educate their child for four years and drop those organizations for a while? Can they not consider that the "charity" they need to contribute the most to is their own child's well-being?
I know this requires reorganizing one's thoughts a bit. We went through it when we became responsible for happygrandmother's financial support and had to eliminate all previously habitual charitable contributions in order to balance our budget. I look on it as giving directly to the most needy cause. |