One of the tabloids reported this rather shocking story yesterday, and today the girl herself was interviewed on Richard & Judy. (A married couple who present a tea-time talkshow over here in the UK.) Here is the low-down for those of you who aren't familiar with the details...
This girl is a university student who is gradually sinking into an ever deepening mire of debt. Her student loan (grants being a thing of the past) barely covers her rent and tuition fees. She works for a waitressing agency afor the princely sum of £4.50 an hour (roughly $6.00) for little things like food and clothing; all the while studying full time for her degree. As her debt mounts she has put her VIRGINITY up for sale on an internet auction site. The sum she's specified is £10,000 (around $16,000), which won't clear all of her debts by the end of her course, but will eat a significant chunk of them.
Before I go on, I should mention this: in America you are used to paying six figure sums for a university education, but over here, the situation is somewhat different. American tax-payers pay about a third of what the British public does and a significant amount of this tax is spent (allegedly) on the funding of higher education for all those with the capability to go for it. The tax system in the USA is vastly different, with parents getting much larger tax breaks on investments in future education over a number of years. Here is is normal to consider that education should be paid for mostly by the state, and just how much a student has to pay back is worked out from the income of their family.
Now this is the point that sticks in my craw...
This girl's parents are both professionals. One is something like a registrar or a surgeon, a job that attracts a salary of between £55,000 and £80,000 ($70,000-$100,000); the other is senior admin, grossing over £30,000 per annum. (Around $45,000.) This caring pair decided in their wisdom that they had no moral obligation to help her through her education once she reached the age of 18, as her support was no longer their legal concern.
I'm not a parent yet, but my personal opinion is that these cretinous bastards should be hanging their heads in shame! 😡 😡 😡 When I eventually become a parent, I'd like to think that giving them assistance through college would be something high on my list of priorities. Legally becoming an adult wouldn't free me of my desire to help them achieve a decent education, nor would it prevent them from taking charge of their own life and becoming a responsible young man or woman.
Quite frankly I don't believe these two deserve the priviledge of parenthood and I think they are the worst kind of hard-hearted scum imaginable. I can't imagine anyone who'd rather see their young daughter driven to prostitution to solve their debt crisis, rather then help them out when they both have such high-paid jobs. To make matters worse this girl is actually a lesbian, which puts paid to any theories about her doing what comes naturally for money.
I'm all for teaching your children the value of self-reliance and responsibility, but is helping your daughter through her education really a gross deriliction of parental duty? Is it even that unusual? I've never heard of parents who didn't help out in some way, even if they couldn't afford to financially support their kids. That this pair could afford to send half a dozen children through education makes this even worse. They basically are the most hard-hearted pair of shits I've ever heard of.
Richard & Judy looked gobsmacked at the thought of parents being so utterly uncharitable and I must say, I can't blame them!
Remember this too: just how much a student has to pay is worked out from the income of their family. This girl will cop for the highest bracket of tuition and top-up fees (when they become legal, as they surely will in the next few days) because her parents are such high earners. But because the scum-sucking sacks of worm excrement have cut her off without a penny, she'll be responsible for the lot! where, pray tell, is the reasonableness in that?
This girl is a university student who is gradually sinking into an ever deepening mire of debt. Her student loan (grants being a thing of the past) barely covers her rent and tuition fees. She works for a waitressing agency afor the princely sum of £4.50 an hour (roughly $6.00) for little things like food and clothing; all the while studying full time for her degree. As her debt mounts she has put her VIRGINITY up for sale on an internet auction site. The sum she's specified is £10,000 (around $16,000), which won't clear all of her debts by the end of her course, but will eat a significant chunk of them.
Before I go on, I should mention this: in America you are used to paying six figure sums for a university education, but over here, the situation is somewhat different. American tax-payers pay about a third of what the British public does and a significant amount of this tax is spent (allegedly) on the funding of higher education for all those with the capability to go for it. The tax system in the USA is vastly different, with parents getting much larger tax breaks on investments in future education over a number of years. Here is is normal to consider that education should be paid for mostly by the state, and just how much a student has to pay back is worked out from the income of their family.
Now this is the point that sticks in my craw...
This girl's parents are both professionals. One is something like a registrar or a surgeon, a job that attracts a salary of between £55,000 and £80,000 ($70,000-$100,000); the other is senior admin, grossing over £30,000 per annum. (Around $45,000.) This caring pair decided in their wisdom that they had no moral obligation to help her through her education once she reached the age of 18, as her support was no longer their legal concern.
I'm not a parent yet, but my personal opinion is that these cretinous bastards should be hanging their heads in shame! 😡 😡 😡 When I eventually become a parent, I'd like to think that giving them assistance through college would be something high on my list of priorities. Legally becoming an adult wouldn't free me of my desire to help them achieve a decent education, nor would it prevent them from taking charge of their own life and becoming a responsible young man or woman.
Quite frankly I don't believe these two deserve the priviledge of parenthood and I think they are the worst kind of hard-hearted scum imaginable. I can't imagine anyone who'd rather see their young daughter driven to prostitution to solve their debt crisis, rather then help them out when they both have such high-paid jobs. To make matters worse this girl is actually a lesbian, which puts paid to any theories about her doing what comes naturally for money.
I'm all for teaching your children the value of self-reliance and responsibility, but is helping your daughter through her education really a gross deriliction of parental duty? Is it even that unusual? I've never heard of parents who didn't help out in some way, even if they couldn't afford to financially support their kids. That this pair could afford to send half a dozen children through education makes this even worse. They basically are the most hard-hearted pair of shits I've ever heard of.
Richard & Judy looked gobsmacked at the thought of parents being so utterly uncharitable and I must say, I can't blame them!
Remember this too: just how much a student has to pay is worked out from the income of their family. This girl will cop for the highest bracket of tuition and top-up fees (when they become legal, as they surely will in the next few days) because her parents are such high earners. But because the scum-sucking sacks of worm excrement have cut her off without a penny, she'll be responsible for the lot! where, pray tell, is the reasonableness in that?
Last edited:
Accepting financial help through education from your parents is NOT being a beggar. It's a frigging hard time of life, just taking the studying into account. It's every parent's duty that is able, to help their child get as good an education as possible; preferably with as little distraction as possible. (Like being thousands in debt.) And the argument that "I had it this hard, so should everyone else!" is tenuous, dopey, old and quite frankly, crap. If the girl had left school at 18 and was working, it changes the situation totally. Then it's fair enough to say that she's entered into the employment world and can take financial responsibility more readily. But she's still at school and her parents have money coming out of their ears. What is this obsession with the age of 18, just because it's a legal landmark? Why does moral responsibility end at that age, just because legal responsibility does?
