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 When your child decides to attend college or the university, he or she will require financial support and boarding. If you are buoyant enough in terms of financial income, then probably you will be able to provide and pave his or her way through this important part of his or her life; yet, if you are not or not sufficiently, then a student loan is the answer.

Having a student loan could cover all the student’s financial needs or at least most of them allowing you to cover for the remaining expenses or giving you room to maneuver and finding possible as well as plausible solutions. Solutions that will allow you to provide for all the needs of your child and still manage to have sufficient income left for all the monthly expenses that your household already has.

Nonetheless, there are things that you need to consider and focus in before your child leaves your home to attend his or her chosen college or university, so that you and your family can rest assured that the student is fine and safe even if he or she is away from home. Emergency contingency plans are or should be amongst them.

Emergencies have a wide range, they can go from a simple nail break to a life-threatening situation, it all depends on the eye of the beholder, or in this case, on the perception of the person that is suffering it. For each family an emergency can mean a different thing and they will react according to the importance that this emergency has on their life and their pre-set values.


This Financial Services article was written by Colby Almond on 5/11/2010