2007-09-15 05:43:47 · 9 answers · asked by Gypsy Gal 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Senior Citizens
No. My mother passed away less than two years after I entered the Navy. I was informed that my father had died a few years later. I didn't attend any funeral because of personal family reasons. The people who informed me of his passing were in error. So, many years later we had a reunion. Neither of my parents contributed financially to the title I eventually earned: Lieutenant Commander.
2007-09-15 07:07:04 · answer #1 · answered by desertviking_00 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I don't think that parents can buy their kids a title or a profession. That tradition died out a couple of hundred years ago :) I got my credentials the usual way - worked my butt off for them.
2007-09-15 14:47:31 · answer #2 · answered by Stella 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, my dad died when I was 11(suicide) . My Mom worked her fingers to the bone to raise my younger brother and me, working jobs not a lot of people would do.She was of the generation that wouldn't ask or expect others to bail her out. All my life I wanted to be a "baby" nurse ,but at the time Latin was compulsory. I was also taking French and could't grasp Latin, so I dropped it. When I finished HS. I still wanted to be a nurse of some kind, so took a RPN course and graduated in '63 . I am a people person and even if I say so myself, I was darn good at it. Thanks Jennyanne for the great questions .
2007-09-15 16:11:49 · answer #3 · answered by Donna 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. I put myself though grad school as a single parent of 2 small boys working full time nights (I had a woman exchange room and board for helping me care for my kids so my parents didn't even babysit the kids while I worked/went to school.)
2007-09-16 14:23:32 · answer #4 · answered by yoga guy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh no! My Dad died when I was 16 and it was work my backside off from that time forward.
I worked and paid for my own college. In the midst of getting my degree, I opened a business which was successful!
So, nope, no help...I set goals and reached them as I could.
2007-09-15 21:13:01 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Being the 3rd child, no, they didn't purchase anything. My oldest sister granduated from William and Mary, but immediatly got married and never used her degree in anthropology. My next sister also graduated and got married. So, there was no hope, so I paid my own education and went to night school.
I probably appreciated it more, but I was married and had 2 kids by the time I was 20. Went back to school at 41 and changed careers, paid for it myself too.
2007-09-15 13:44:08 · answer #6 · answered by slk29406 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
well, they paid for the first 4 years of College, so I suppose they "bought" my BA. Of course, it didn't really feel purchased, as I had to work my butt off to make good grades...otherwise, I suspect they would have whipped it off!
I must add, this is a strange question...are we waxing political this morning? You couldn't be implying that Geor.... Naw, I didn't think so. Goldwing
2007-09-15 12:57:53 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
No, I got mine myself. 5 years at the university.
2007-09-15 12:51:50 · answer #8 · answered by zuikajoli 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They paid for my education and love them for it.
2007-09-15 12:59:25 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋