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I second the Wolf and Solaro. And it isn’t just by Yidden, either.
I know plenty of people who devoted their lives to chinuch, not worrying about money, and found they had trouble marrying off their daughters because they could’t offer support. To quote one person, “How could HaShem be punishing me for doing what’s right?” And yet there is a real problem. The mothers of the boys, who think their precious son has a right to sit in kollel and be supported into old age (or are afraid to tell their friends that the kallah’s father can’t afford it), refuse to hear shidduchim unless they see the big bucks. And so, as Solaro says, the grandchildren have problems. The OTD problem has more than one root, and I think this may be one of them.