<p>if your children are MALE why push their loan burden on their future husband? </p>
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<p>My, you’re progressive, thumper! ;)</p>
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<p>As a stay-at-home parent, I agree with the first part. It’s a luxury you make sacrifices for, not a right.</p>
<p>As someone who worked through college and made choices commensurate with my newly independent status at 17, I disagree with the second part. The parent isn’t putting loans on the child. The child is choosing to take the loans based on a (hopefully) risk-benefit analysis of future income.</p>
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<p>yep…and</p>
<p>if your children are MALE why push their loan burden on their future wife?</p>
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<p>if your children are FEMALE why push their loan burden on their future wife?</p>
<p>All of the above!!</p>
<p>Snap! thumper1–so glad to hear there are such progressives on CC!</p>
<p>Did the OP not come back to this thread?</p>
<p>He came back a few times.</p>
<p>I just think that reducing a growing family’s income down to $40k with the idea that “full aid” might be out there is just irresponsible. I think the dad should find better paying employment before the wife quits her job. </p>
<p>The child is 14…who knows what kind of stats the child will have. Many so-called straight A students end up with modest test scores because they’ve gone to schools with massive grade inflation. There’s no guarantee that this child will end up with the stats needed to get into the kind of schools that give full aid…or get admitted to these schools if she does have the stats.</p>
<p>No one also knows what the FA policies will be in the future at various schools. At some point, maybe some of these “full need” schools won’t be able to afford to be so generous.</p>
<p>Didn’t Art Linkletter have a show called * People are Funny*?</p>
<p>Here we have a couple where the wife has a much better job, as the husband isn’t paid as much as the national median wage ( + the wife also has better benefits).
They have one child, but want to have more & want the wife to quit her job and somehow try and scrape by on the husbands salary.
That in itself sounds immature & irresponsible- you don’t even need to go into paying for college.
An adult takes care of their present responsibilities, before they attempt to add more.</p>
<p>Sounds like the OP is assuming too much: </p>
<p>1.) Excellent grades & stats for the daughter who is now 14.</p>
<p>2.) If #1 is true, then will the financial aid policies at schools known for meeting a high percentage of need, still be doing so? Financial aid is constantly changing. </p>
<p>3.) Assumes that family will be able to get by on his salary alone & wife should quit her job & have more children? Having more children on the one salary? </p>
<p>Colleges aren’t charities!</p>