My parent's NEVER thought about saving money for my college....I don't know if my mom will help pay off the part of my financial aid I have to pay back....I for sure know dead beat father would never pay a d*&^ cent for anything for me. Because of this I wondered why anyone would pay for their children's college. It angers me. It angers me that other people love their kids more or think more highly of them, they believe their children will go to college. I suppose my parents never thought I'd be that much of anything.... My p.o.s. father never went to college. My mother only went when I was a teenager....I suppose I'll save money for my son, so he doesn't feel like I do now...but it'll be for him to use to get his own place or car or for college, whatever it is he plans to do.