Not sure I agree with parents, but I darn sure disagree with post 31. Adults cutting off payments for a young adult in college isn’t controlling the student’s life. It is setting the student free. The student can now do whatever he wants. They have enabled the student now, to have the same rights and obligations the parents have. The student is free! The parents have freed the student from their rule, and now the student can do as he pleases. Of course, if the student wants to receive certain benefits from the parents, he may choose to conform to their wishes. But that wouldn’t be some parental rule, that would be a matter of the student’s choice.