Well I assure you I did not have children in order to get a free ride to college. No one in their right mind would get a demanding 24 hour job such as parenting to avoid working an little eight hour job. Mayhaps some of you are right in that I should not have depended on my husband. We both wanted an old fashioned family. He wanted to work and he wanted his children to be raised by their actual mother. It wasn't that I was planning to let him support us forever, like I said before, it was just until all our children were in school. That also would give me the time to complete my degree. Of course my marriage didn't work out that way. He has changed his mind and yes, I am feeling pretty naive. By the way, My husband did not pay for my schooling, I have student loans which I will get to pay back one day. Of course those loans will never get paid back if I do not finish school, they will forever be delayed by hardship deferment. That will be goverment money down the drain. I'm sorry that so many of you do not approve of getting help from the goverment. I am planning to get whatever help I can until I am on my own two feet again. My children will never know that we were on welfare, but they will know that mommy got her degree. I will not get a full time job and go to school full time. My children will not have their world turned upside down anymore then it has to be. I will continue my full time education and get a part time job to supplement what I do not get from child support. A degree does mean something, and it will help me get a job. I might have to start at the bottom, but thats ok by me. It doesn't matter what your opinion is. I see it has a hand up and not a hand out, at least the way I plan to utilize it. Like I said before, I did not ask for your judgement, I just wanted some legal advice.