Gone are the days where you can get a decent job with a high school diploma. Now you need at least some college to get those jobs you used to do with a high school diploma. And college is too expensive.

My daughter is 19, works a part-time job and goes to school part-time. She lives at home. I would rather have a roof over her head and a place to study than to kick her out into the street and tell her she's on her own. Yeah, it's going to take her awhile to get her degree but at least she won't have student loan debt to pay off. She has depression and anxiety but she knows coping skills and uses them. Am I coddling her, maybe, but it's better than having her trafficked for sex like some girls her age.