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[Am I wrong] for refusing to financially support my daughter's "gap year" to pursue acting, when we paid for our other kids college expenses?
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I can't quite tell if the parents made it clear from the start that they would only fully fund an educational path. I can understand why it would seem unfair, then, if she assumed her parents were simply willing to give financial support for any career goal.
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Ah, there it is. She isn't very good at it. At least, not enough to impress mom. I think the family can come to some sort of compromise where they aren't completely funding her but can support her in other ways while she pursues her dreams and learns the craft of acting.
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Parents of 18-year-old daughter refuse to financially fund her gap year while she pursues acting despite paying for her siblings' higher education: 'She just plans to throw darts and see what sticks'
For many parents, one of the worst things they could possibly hear from their kids is, "I think I want to pursue acting." It's not that these parents don't believe in their kids' dreams, but showbiz is notoriously unstable, competitive, and expensive. I know plenty of people who deluded themselves into thinking they could make it big after watching cherry-picked interviews from lucky breakout stars, conveniently ignoring the thousands of others who spent years chasing auditions, only to end up burned out, broke, back home living with their parents, or all of the above.
This is the situation one pair of parents find themselves in today. They have three kids, and while they fully financially supported their first two kids while they pursued higher education, they're hesitant to fund their youngest in her pursuit of an acting career. In money-minded mom's eyes, there would likely be little return for the investment. Years of rent, tuition, and living expenses seem much more worth the effort when they result in a doctor, like their eldest. Their daughter and indeed, much of the extended family, find this hard line incredibly unfair, and dad is starting to cave under the mounting pressure. Now mom is caught between her daughter's dreams and her own sense of financial responsibility.