>Your answers to my first three questions helped a lot to clarify your views. Thanks.
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>>>4) I don't know how many children you have of what sexes, but assuming you have both sons and daughters, do you plan to offer them the same educational opportunities?
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>>I have four children - three daughters and one son. I have encouraged my daughters to strive to be Godly women and have tried to elevate the idea of a Godly wife and Mother for them. I believe my wife is a great example for them. That said, I have also told them that they need to consider whether or not they think college would be helpful to them. My oldest (who is 15) is considering attending nursing school. I am encouraging her in that decision. For my son, I have stressed to him the importance of being a provider for his family - if that's the Lord wills for him to have a family. I have encouraged him to consider an educational direction that would the best provide opportunities for that path. He is free to make his own decision at to whether or not college is an option (as are my girls.)
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>This fascinates me and is a big difference between us, but I don't know whether it's one of culture or religion. My children were raised knowing they were going to college, and with an expectation that graduate school would follow. If one of them had wanted not to go to college, he would have had to come up with a really good reason and a plan for what he was going to do instead.
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>Pretty much everyone in my community expects their children to go to college. In fact, my siblings (one brother, one sister) and I were also raised with the expectation of college.
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>Tamar

I grew up that was as well (being expected to attend college.) I'm not discouraging them from attending college - just not making that a requirement. You have to remember that my kids are still young. My two youngest daughters (7 and 11) want a job a Taco Bell when they grow up - so - they really haven't begun to think in those terms yet. My oldest daughter is thinking about nursing school - to which I am doing all I can to encourage that. My son wants to get into computers in some way.