Most of the US college kids
do not get much help from their parents. Lots of them get no help from their parents.
They get loan for the tuition and live. They work to get some money, but just for extra expense.
I have lots of friends, who still have student loans, while they are in their early 30s already.
When the girl marry a man, lots of them do not work, so, the man also need to pay the wife's student loan.
This is the real life of normal US people.
It does not like Asian parents that they pay lots of money for their kids to go to college.