A better education through suing

Interesting article.

Is a college education a right? If my parents are divorced and can't/wont pay for me to go to college, or a specific college, can I sue to get them to? Apparently, in some states.

"Children of divorced parents are less likely to go to college, less likely to go to prestigious schools, and generally are less economically successful than their parents," she said. "As a matter of public policy, we have to decide if that's what we want."

There's a bunch of issues wrapped into this. At the front seems to be the role of the state in raising divorced kids. No matter how you slice it, states which allow this kind of suit are interfering with the kids of divorced parents in a topic that they never would, were the parents not divorced.

It's a touchy subject. Certainly, if Bill Gates got divorced, and would only pay for his kid to go to Community College when the kid has been accepted to Harvard - then there seems to be a problem. On the other side, a choice between Brown and Bandies doesn't seem to be on the same scale.