Financing your sibling/s education

Philippines
July 16, 2010 8:59pm CST
What do you guys think your husband/wife feels if you are financing you sibling/s education? In the Philippines, you will normally encounter situations like this where we still help our brothers and sisters in their educational expenses even when we are already married. Another question, how will you feel if your spouse is the one financing his/her siblings?
1 response
@pogi253 (1586)
• Philippines
17 Jul 10
in the Philippines its normal that they still finance the education of their siblings that in return they expect that their siblings will help them financially in the future.
• Philippines
17 Jul 10
im from the philippines too. but i am not really expecting my sibling to return the favor to me but to our parents in the future when i would have opted to stop working to focus on my own family. by that time i won't be able to fully support my parents financially so i'm gonna need my sibling's help.
@floris (26)
• China
18 Jul 10
i am not married yet . in my opinion , i hope my spouse would support me when i have to such thing . but it's not an voluntary action in China , it usually our parents' resposibility to finance children's education .
• Philippines
18 Jul 10
floris, good for you, our cultures are different. because in our country we feel morally obliged to still support our family in a way even when we are already married. Specially when someone has many siblings, or when the parents are already old. And we are most complied to do so when older siblings had helped us also to sustain our education. ^.^