Simple. Don’t put down the down payment if you can’t afford it.”
Don’t do it, even if you CAN afford it. Since when do whiney kids get to make such unreasonable demands of their parents??? Quelle chutzpah!!!!
A parent does what he or she can do OUT OF LOVE, not out of the child’s feelings of entitlement. We have sadly and deplorably raised a generation of truly thoughtless and selfish brats who think they have a right to demand that their parents continue to raise them as if they were still helpless children. And if the parent DOES say no, their noses get out of joint.
Conversely, many parents deliberately encourage their kids in this selfish behavior, because they are better able to retain control over them when they hold the purse strings. That is incredibly bad behavior on the part of the parents, not only their children.