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Originally Posted by AlphaFrog
Ya know - sometimes life's not fair and one sibling doesn't get what another one does.
These kids are not ENTITLED for their parents to pay for ANYTHING anymore - school, sorority, and the clothes on their back are THEIR responsibility as legal adults. If this girl wants to be in a sorority bad enough, she may need to get a job (regardless of whether her major prescribes), take out a loan, or forgo this year and work and save all summer and take her chances as a sophomore.
Quit acting like this sorority is this mom's obligation. It's not. She's not a bad mom for choosing to be able to make her mortgage payments rather than fund her daughter's social life.
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Yes, yes, yes!!! There were plenty of things I wanted in college but couldn't have because my parents couldn't afford it. I didn't fault them for it. I understood that they did the best they could with the money they had, and if I wanted more, I worked for it and earned the money myself. If this mom honestly thought that the cost of being in a sorority was X and it turned out to be X*2, she's not the worst mom on the planet and shouldn't be expected to go into all kinds of debt. We aren't talking about an extra $100, we're talking about thousands. I gather that some people in this thread have never really lived on a tight budget, but for some families, thousands of dollars a year can mean the difference between eating or not eating.
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