Comments on: Unequal Financial Handouts from Parents: Working in a Job That Does Not Support Your Lifestyle

By: Reba

Reba — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 15:33:45 +0000

What the heck are these parents doing? First of all, the teacher/daughter needs to learn to survive on her own money. This girl needs to grow up. What happens when her parents are no longer there to suppot her? Secondly, they’re driving a wedge between their girls. This is NOT smart parenting.

By: Jeanne

Jeanne — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 04:29:53 +0000

These daughters ought to go into a room together and not come out until the matter is straightened out between them. Their parents are giving THEIR money where they want. In THEIR eyes, the teacher should have it. They have THEIR reasons how they dispurse THEIR money and it is no one else’s business. We are not discussing the parents’ love of their daughters but the higher paid daughter seems to be equating love with money, if only in her subconscious. This is not about money.

By: Newlyweds on a Budget

Newlyweds on a Budget — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 19:05:35 +0000

This opens a whole new can of worms, because now the daughter’s children are involved. It’s one thing to feel like your parents help your sibling out more financially, but it’s another to see preferential treatment amongst the grandchildren. Whether or not the sister “needs” these items, it’s still gifts that are being given to one sister’s chiildren and not the other. I can absolutely understand the jealousy.
And it simply goes back to not being fair. The teacher CHOSE her profession. Why does she get financial help for a choice she made? Whereas the sister made it on her own and isn’t receiving the gifts?