Mom, I Dropped My Laptop - Does your insurance cover your college kid? Should you cosign his lease? Answers to these and other cries for help

摘要

A TYPICAL SOS FROM COLLEGE student to parent used to be pretty simple: Please send money. Nowadays, getting a panicked call from your child can be a bit more complicated: a stolen laptop, an outrageous bank overdraft fee, an over-the-top cellphone bill, a run-in with the landlord.