Southern California father, tired of 24-year-old college dropout barista daughter’s requests for money, insists on asking about her return to school every time: ‘She is wasting the opportunity to have an easier path we worked so hard to provide for her’

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• If the mother’s advice lands with the subtlety of a sledgehammer, it’s only because she’s terrified that the doors she pried open will be closed by her child’s own choices. And from that perspective, withholding money isn’t abandonment—it’s faith that, eventually, her daughter will find stability by standing on her own two feet.

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