An Argentinian woman filed a case in family court to be allowed to stop supporting her 22-year-old daughter financially because she neglected her university studies and didn’t have a job.

The unnamed woman told family court judge María Laura Dumple that her 22-year-old daughter had been enrolled at the National University of Río Negro since 2020 but had only completed 11% of her studies and had no intention of getting a job. She explained that cutting her child off financially was the best way not to allow her to continue doing nothing with her life. Argentina’s Civil Code establishes the obligation of parents to provide resources to their child until the age of 25, provided that the child cannot support himself due to studies or work.