It seems like you have a serious misunderstanding as to what the normal expectations are regarding paying for a college education. The student’s need calculations take into account both what the student can contribute and also what the parent(s) can contribute in cases when the student is a dependent for need-based financial aid purposes.
If the parents of a dependent student are able to contribute but choose not to, that doesn’t make the student more needy. The reasonable expectation is that parents who are able to contribute will do so. If parents who are able to contribute refuse to do so, that’s unfortunate for the student, but it doesn’t shift the obligation to fund the education to someone else.