Father Fights Paying For Adult Child's College Education

	posted by Nightmist on Wednesday September 05, @01:52PM from the inequality dept.
	This story in the National Post details a long-running battle in Canada against unfair child support laws affecting non-custodial parents (particularly fathers). In what is widely interpreted as a deliberate attempt to force government to clarify the law, [Judge Jack] Watson ruled that students are destitute because they cannot go to school and work at the same time. The father is asking that the ruling be suspended while he challenges it in the Alberta Court of Appeal. Many students do work while in college. Hopefully, the appeals court will recognize that fact.

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Absurd by Anonymous User on Wednesday September 05, @06:45PM EST (#1) Whether minor children have a right to support from their parents is a matter of Constitutional debate. However, once you turn 18 there is no longer any debate. You are on your own, no one else is obligated to hand you a penny. Ever. A few parents do choose to help their adult kids with college expenses, and a tiny percentage continue to be there for their kids throughout their lives. It's a shame most modern parents don't do this, and admittedly some of them can't, but that's a societal problem. The gov't can't fix this, nor should it attempt to. Mandates such as the kind this articles discusses turn what should be a *voluntary* act of parental love into a government edict.

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