[...] what if a daughter neither marries nor becomes a nun?   Will she be able to support herself?   It’s just something to keep in mind if Our Lord tarries and she outlives you.  I bring it up because a single woman without an education who is alone in the world has a very difficult time of it. 

No problem: Just prepare for the worst, while praying for the best, by earning a Ph.D. in planetary science ^[★].  It seems likely that for decades to come, affirmative action will provide substantial advantages to comparable women during their careers in many engineering & scientific fields.

The temptation, even pressure to have to compromise or make a bad marriage is intense.   

Catholic marriage is not guaranteed to be a permanent solution for uneducated women: Even educated Catholic wives can become suddenly "alone in the world" by being unexpectedly dumped by their Catholic husbands, without any ecclesiastical formalities.  Whatever the husband's excuse, how much practical difference would it make to the faithful wife?  Altho' I suppose that civil-divorce law will catch up with such wretched examples of husbands, holding such men to court-decreed alimony or child-support obligations can be a struggle, especially across state borders.

Obviously, these risks are not limited to uneducated single women, but the impacts to them would be more severe.  Educated single women who've earned unmarketable degrees ^[×] might not fare much better.

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Note ★: <https://www.cathinfo.com/catholic-living-in-the-modern-world/stuck-up-nasa-babe-shuns-suitor-trying-to-be-funny/>.

Note ×: E.g., B.A. in psychology or (probably) sociology.

I agree. College is a racket.  

There are people out there with only 8th grade education and they have their own businesses.  Pre school and kindergarten is a waste of time and tax payer money. 

As the years went by and I observed the hiring process of fellow employees and took part in interviewing applicants myself, and I see that the degrees did not mean much, other that you have enough self discipline to earn a degree. What seemed to matter was your personality fit with the employer; your work experience, the credibility of your references as perceived by the employer - who you know.

Yes, I've actually hired computer programmers for my company who did not have degrees (based on the criteria you cite), and I practically bragged about how some of the best we had lacked degrees.  I took classes in Computer Science in the 1990s.  Those are worth ABSOLUTELY NOTHING now.  Technology changes so quickly, that the aptitude for it and the ability to learn quickly matter more than being able to regurgitate some details that anyone can find on Google.  Also, of your average 40-45 classes that you would take in college, no more than 10 of them are in your major field of study, with the rest being filler core they make you take just so the Jewry can drain a little more from your wallet.

Regardless of whether it is "worth it" financially, I'm not even sure it is morally permissible.

When I went to college, the course content for the general education credit requirements (i.e., liberal arts taught by atheistic Jew professors 50% of the time) was often blasphemous and heretical, and in testing, you would often be required to reaffirm such.

For example, I recall in a class called "Western Civilization Until 1648" (or some such title), the ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖ freemasonic professor glorified firstly the Lutheran revolt ("He said what people had been thinking for centuries!"), then the French Revolution.  We were required to read Candide by Francis-Mary Arouet.

It was not possible to critique or challenge the professor's presentation.

Your grade was dependent upon the degree to which you could faithfully regurgitate the sophistries you had been spoon fed.

Deviations from the received view "demonstrated" a failure to grasp course material.

Had I been a faithful Catholic in those days, I never could have gotten the grades that I did.

Today I would flunk those courses, because I would lambast what those professors were teaching.

But had I been a faithful Catholic in those days, my faith would certainly have been challenged on a daily basis.

I'm not sure we are allowed to knowingly place our faith in that kind of danger, and I am also not confident an 18 year-old Catholic who will be wowed by his "incredibly intelligent" professors, will be able to withstand their sophistries.  He simply won't have had the time to study his faith (or history) enough by that age.

People often say to me, "Well, what if I want to become a lawyer?"

My response is always, "What is more important to you: Maintaining your faith, or becomming a lawyer?"

To which they always respond: "Are you trying to tell me God doesn't want any Catholic lawyers, or doctors, etc?"

To which I always respond: "God may give some the grace to withstand/resist their indoctrination, yes, and if your priest agrees that it is your calling to become a lawyer, well, that's between him, you, and God.  But if you are doing this of your own accord (which will be the case in 90% of the cases: Whoever asks their priest about their vocations, except in the case of religious or priestly vocations?  They all think that if they want to be something else, that is their own business.  WRONG!), you are likely acting according to your own will against the will of God, who would not want to plunge you into a dangerous environment woefully underprepared.  Besides, God can always convert the doctors and lawyers he needs."

Also, there are tons of online schools. The internet is making brick-and-mortar colleges obsolete.

I agree that a woman should have a way to earn money if she never gets married or becomes a nun.

But that is one thing and sending your daughter away to college its very different.
 
Daughters should be protected by their parents. Im a woman and I was exposed to dangerous situations at college. Only God's grace saved me and I didnt turn a whore, a party girl, raped, single mom, etc.

College are dangerous places to naive young women.

Here we go again.

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Of course, now that I'm also losing the hair on top of my head, I'll probably be even MORE inclined to keep the beard.  From the back I look like I've been tonsured (in the religious order fashion).  Perhaps I need to order a zucchetto.





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Your insecurity is unbecoming of a real man, and your wife smells it from a mile away.

Glycogen (aka Croix) fails to recognize that these comments were made largely tongue-in-cheek on a thread about beards and facial hair ... as evidenced by my joke about the zucchetto.  I was poking fun at myself for losing my hair.