I don’t blame parents for causing their daughters to find"sugar daddies" or to take a stripping job…
I blame the system that has allowed such expensive college tuition, that it’s almost impossible to fund their own education with more mainstream jobs that young people traditionally held to help pay for college.
Otoh, the young women in the article are going to very expensive universities. They could have gone to cheaper, less prestigious schools. But if they want a degree from a prestigious university, and they’re willing to sell their “companionship” (and maybe more) for it…
Yes, thank goodness, I’ve never been in this position, either, but I’ve also never put myself in this position. And even if I had, I think it would be much less painful than being up to my eyeballs in debt. In short, I understand their decision to do this, unsavory, again, as it may be.
As for blaming the parents… Many students may get bad advice, or none at all, from their parents, for a variety of reasons. They may not have went to college themselves, or they went to state schools. Many just don’t realize there are many places with merit scholarships or other tuition discount options.
Many haven’t saved enough because they failed to research how expensive college has become. Yes, I suppose we can blame them for it, but I also understand how someone would never imagine that tuition, as well as room and board, have gone up so dramatically in just one generation.
College tuition, even in-state tuition at the cheapest state schools, has, imho, just become too expensive for too many families.