Rachel Canning父母案，仔细想想她要求父母付大学学费也不是全无道理。

在网络一片声讨声中，离家出走后起诉父母要大学学费的十八岁女孩在脸书上发表了如下抱怨。

“Suburban baby boomer types are the spoiled lot, they make massive amounts of money a year, they are used to flying to luxury destinations when they want, and buy things that they don't need, people should be inclined to see things my way,” wrote Canning on her Facebook page, according to the NY Daily News.

Canning also allegedly went on to say that people her parent’s age only cared about, “retiring into some fantasy world rather than provide for their children's college and young adult years.”

“In today's economy there are no more meaningful jobs and without family help it's usually military or bust,”

“I see parents like this every day,” continued Canning in her post, “children were always an accessory to them and nothing more, once that accessory grew up and went out of fashion, much like a marriage that people allegedly commit to, the child becomes a throwaway, that's just how it is.”

她也不是全无道理的。理论上孩子十八岁了经济独立了和父母没有金钱关系了。但实际上完全不是这样。美国人， 尤其老人，现在可以活得这么潇洒，基本上是因为有MEDICARE 和 SOCIAL SECURITY. 这两个东西是PAY GO系统，就是现在的纳税人付上一代的养老福利，下一代纳税人再付这一代。这两个税加一起时多数人工资的大约20%。而这个税收又完全依赖于下一代人的生产力，创造价值能力，按现在的说法，是和下一代人的教育程度息息相关的。
老人拿孩子的“养老税”时可不考虑这个老人的行为是否值得拿这份钱，抛弃妻子的照拿不误。那为什么孩子如果不能说服父母拿出学费钱，那就只能靠自己呢？
如果孩子十八岁就法律上就和父母在经济关系上脱离了，那么老人是否也该"65+18=83“以后就不能再依赖下一代了呢？

说实话，这个案子仔细关切一下，看得深些，就会发现RACHEL对他父母的评价也不全是无稽之谈。这个女孩是个好学生，只有在过去的半年里才变成爬梯酗酒动物的。她的父母把这事归罪于男朋友。但是有趣的是她的父母从夏天开始闹分居。呵呵，要是按咱中国人的观点，家里有三个TEENAGERS，早四脚朝天了，忙得没功夫吵架，哪还有分居可闹？说他们”自我和自私“也不能算不客气了。