Parents refuse to financially support 18-year-old daughter while she peruses acting in LA for a year: 'We agreed to support our kids through college, which she is choosing not to attend'

You'd be surprised how many young "struggling" actors in LA and New York are fully funded by their parents. These are not young adults who cannot find survival jobs because they're so busy with their art or aren't qualified for any non-acting work that will allow them to pay their own essentials; they are just unwilling to do the work that it takes to be a working actor. Some grown-up kids don't want to have to live in a seedy neighborhood or pay their own rent, and if they have parents who are willing to foot the bill, why would they do anything else but allow them to do so?

There's a significant difference between parents funding their adult children's "dreams" into their 30s without a clear path towards self-sustainability, and a parent helping their kid out when they're young, genuinely trying their best, and struggling. A parent might set up an agreement with their kid that they must be able to pay for their own lifestyle by a certain age, which is totally reasonable. For some parents, that age is 18. For others, it's 28. 

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