Reddy Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 Whhhaaaaat a b****. Ok so I guess some in this generation really are entitled brats. Good lord. A New Jersey high school senior sued her parents, accusing them of tossing her out of the family home when she turned 18 and refusing to pay for her private high school and college education. In a lawsuit, Rachel Canning of Lincoln Park, New Jersey, asked a court to have her parents pay the outstanding tuition for her private high school, pay her living and transportation expenses for the foreseeable future, use money from an existing college fund to pay for at least some of her college education, and pay her legal bills. http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/05/living/nj-te....html?hpt=hp_c2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RockRaines Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 Whatever lawyer decided to take this case is just as wrong. Kids these days are the worst. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soxsoxsoxsox Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 (edited) where do you get the money to sue your parents. couldn't she have just paid for school? Edited March 5, 2014 by buhbuhburrrrlz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balta1701 Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 QUOTE (buhbuhburrrrlz @ Mar 5, 2014 -> 01:09 PM) where do you get the money to sue your parents. couldn't she have just paid for school? The legal bills were included in the request. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reddy Posted March 5, 2014 Author Share Posted March 5, 2014 QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 5, 2014 -> 01:14 PM) The legal bills were included in the request. This girl is screwing herself.... she gonna be in SOOO much debt after all this. Forget college. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EvilMonkey Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 The father of a friend she is staying with is a lawyer and is bankrolling her case. He hired another lawyer (although it doesn't say if it was one from where he works or anything) and has supposedly spend about $13k so far, which was also requested in the lawsuit. And denied. She lost round one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RockRaines Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Mar 5, 2014 -> 01:24 PM) The father of a friend she is staying with is a lawyer and is bankrolling her case. He hired another lawyer (although it doesn't say if it was one from where he works or anything) and has supposedly spend about $13k so far, which was also requested in the lawsuit. And denied. She lost round one. My mind immediately goes to her banging the friends father. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigruss Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 Well I do understand the private high school tuition part, if her parents enrolled her in that school then they should be paying for that. Everything else is just her feeling entitled to wealth. Also, why do major publications quote facebook comments within news articles? Makes them look like trash. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RockRaines Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Mar 5, 2014 -> 02:56 PM) Well I do understand the private high school tuition part, if her parents enrolled her in that school then they should be paying for that. Everything else is just her feeling entitled to wealth. Also, why do major publications quote facebook comments within news articles? Makes them look like trash. I mean, if your kid runs away because they dont want to live by your rules, why do you have to continue to pay for her tuition? She should be the adult she thinks she is and enroll in public school or get her GED. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soxbadger Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 Its a little more complicated than that. If her parents enrolled her in the school, than it possibly could be their obligation regardless of what she did. I mean unless she signed the agreement, there is no privity of contract between her and the school. I mean if she wanted to be clever she should have broke her parents up, then in the divorce had her mom ask for the college tuition to be part of the separation agreement. People are so stupid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JPN366 Posted March 6, 2014 Share Posted March 6, 2014 My sister-in-law sued my mother and father-in-law to make them pay for her college. Her grandparents incurred 6 figures in legals bills helping my sister-in-law. As you can imagine, there is quite the schism in my wife's family. She didn't want to follow my mother-in-law's rules, so the same reason as this chick. My sister-in-law only managed to become a 9th grade math teacher as a result. Her twin brother, who's apartment took a direct hit from a Tornado in Tuscaloosa in 2011 and almost got killed, did student loans, is in the reserves and is a firefighter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenksismyhero Posted March 6, 2014 Share Posted March 6, 2014 And we don't have an entitlement problem in this country... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balta1701 Posted March 6, 2014 Share Posted March 6, 2014 QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Mar 6, 2014 -> 10:02 AM) And we don't have an entitlement problem in this country... I know, I can't believe this is happening thousands of times per year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmags Posted March 6, 2014 Share Posted March 6, 2014 This stuff certainly never happened 10 years and 20 years before it! America is never taking a single sensationalist case and extrapolating it across a generation! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenksismyhero Posted March 6, 2014 Share Posted March 6, 2014 QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 6, 2014 -> 10:26 AM) I know, I can't believe this is happening thousands of times per year. No, but it's indicative of the general trend, just like the Occupy stuff. Do you think anyone from 30 years ago would have demanded their parents pay for their college tuition? Or continue to support them after the age of 18? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeSox Posted March 6, 2014 Share Posted March 6, 2014 (edited) Kids these days!!!! articles have been written by every generation since articles existed. edit: It's from last september but here's an article that goes over how empty the "kids these days are so spoiled!" complaints are, and how they're repeated by every generation. It turns out that 18-25 year olds are pretty reliably narcissistic and self-centered in every generation. Here's documentation of Time publishing essentially the same article every decade since at least the 70's. That said, at least what's been reported about this story makes this girl look like a giant baby. Edited March 6, 2014 by StrangeSox Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmags Posted March 6, 2014 Share Posted March 6, 2014 QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Mar 6, 2014 -> 04:55 PM) No, but it's indicative of the general trend, just like the Occupy stuff. LOL what. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenksismyhero Posted March 6, 2014 Share Posted March 6, 2014 I'm not saying kids haven't been spoiled s***s before, but I don't think kids in past generations would have started a lawsuit over it. They might have felt like their parents owed it to them to pay for their college, but they never would have asserted that as a legal right. And yes, Occupy was an example of that problem. Kids protesting about not having jobs or money as they tweet and blog through various hi-tech gadgets. They had a legitimate beef to start (lots of debt, no jobs) but quickly just became a "I want more. I don't have enough. Look at that rich guy over there. Not fair." movement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balta1701 Posted March 6, 2014 Share Posted March 6, 2014 QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Mar 6, 2014 -> 11:55 AM) Do you think anyone from 30 years ago would have demanded their parents pay for their college tuition? No, because college was actually affordable ~30 years ago to most people if they qualified thanks to significant government support of universities that has evaporated over that time period. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenksismyhero Posted March 6, 2014 Share Posted March 6, 2014 QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 6, 2014 -> 11:32 AM) No, because college was actually affordable ~30 years ago to most people if they qualified thanks to significant government support of universities that has evaporated over that time period. Affordable or night, I guarantee you all of our parents would never have dreamed of DEMANDING that their parents support them and pay for their college. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RockRaines Posted March 6, 2014 Share Posted March 6, 2014 QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 6, 2014 -> 11:32 AM) No, because college was actually affordable ~30 years ago to most people if they qualified thanks to significant government support of universities that has evaporated over that time period. Yes but loans were harder to come by. Also kids dont work as much these days as they used to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balta1701 Posted March 6, 2014 Share Posted March 6, 2014 QUOTE (RockRaines @ Mar 6, 2014 -> 12:36 PM) Also kids dont work as much these days as they used to. Data suggests this is true entirely because of the 2008 economic collapse. The labor force participation rate by people in the 16-19 and 20-24 groups significantly increased from 1959 to 1999 , but it then dramatically decreased starting in the late 2000's. Edited because man I compeltely wrote that crap wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmags Posted March 6, 2014 Share Posted March 6, 2014 QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Mar 6, 2014 -> 06:32 PM) I'm not saying kids haven't been spoiled s***s before, but I don't think kids in past generations would have started a lawsuit over it. They might have felt like their parents owed it to them to pay for their college, but they never would have asserted that as a legal right. And yes, Occupy was an example of that problem. Kids protesting about not having jobs or money as they tweet and blog through various hi-tech gadgets. They had a legitimate beef to start (lots of debt, no jobs) but quickly just became a "I want more. I don't have enough. Look at that rich guy over there. Not fair." movement. Sure, the SDS was completely reasonable as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RockRaines Posted March 6, 2014 Share Posted March 6, 2014 QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 6, 2014 -> 11:44 AM) Data suggests this is true entirely because of the 2008 economic collapse. The labor force participation rate by people in the 16-19 and 20-24 groups significantly increased from 1959 to 1999 , but it then dramatically decreased starting in the late 2000's. Edited because man I compeltely wrote that crap wrong. Maybe. Entry level jobs for teens and young adults were still there for the taking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balta1701 Posted March 6, 2014 Share Posted March 6, 2014 QUOTE (RockRaines @ Mar 6, 2014 -> 12:51 PM) Maybe. Entry level jobs for teens and young adults were still there for the taking. Just remember this...I looked it up a while back, only 20% of fast food counter workers are under the age of 25, everyone else is someone older needing a job. The world of "still there for the taking" jobs doesn't exist right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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