Parents Stir Debate for Refusing to Pay Gay Son's Tuition After Coming Out
Reddit's popular "Am I The A**hole" forum where it received more than 9,300 upvotes and 3,500 comments. The post can be found here.The annual tuition for traditional four-year colleges in the U.S.
for the 2021-2022 school year averaged at $10,740 for public in-state students and $27,560 for out-of-state students, according to CollegeBoard data.For students attending private four-year colleges in the U.S., this cost averages closer to $38,070 per year—an $800 increase from the year before.According to CollegeBoard data, students and parents borrowed $95.9 billion dollars in the 2020-2021 school year.More than half of borrowers with outstanding loans owed less than $20,000 as of March 2021, with 45 percent of the outstanding loan debt held by 10 percent of borrowers who owe more than $80,000.About 23 percent of borrowers were 50 years or older, making up $1.59 trillion of the outstanding federal loan balance as of March 2021.In the post titled "AITA for refusing to pay from my gay son's tuition after he came out to his family?" the 40-year-old woman said her 19-year-old son came out to her and her husband when he was 14."My husband and I are both atheists and support the LGBTQ+ community and were both proud of our son for coming out," the post read. "However, my husband's mother is a devout Catholic and is extremely intolerant of gay people."The OP said her children were told from a young age that their wealthy grandmother would pay for their college under one condition: they attend a private Christian or Catholic school."She believes this will keep them from partying, having premarital sex, etc.," the post read.
