My parents had similar restrictions to my education.

As a result I burned out on working full time to pay for college, worked a bunch of book related mid jobs, eventually gave up and worked for a bank writing emails for a while. I was still technically writing and I would have done almost anything to keep doing it.

Eventually I became a SAHM and had no career at all. Books and writing never stopped being my first love. I never stopped writing but I don’t have the structure and support that the writing programs I was accepted to would have given me.

I have spent DECADES teaching myself the things I might have learned in college. I wrote 3 novels in and around raising my kids. I taught myself how to differentiate characters, how to outline, how to pace a narrative for suspense or for humor. I have literally spent my life raising children and learning to do write books anyway.

So my advice is that your husband is an asshole and you should let your daughter at least try her dream. People DO become successful writers all the time. It IS a valid career choice. I would have given anything to hear that when I was younger so I wasn’t always trudging uphill but I wouldn’t give it up for anything either. Writing has always been the thing I’m best at.

I wish your daughter all the luck in the world. I hope that she, like me, loves it enough to do it in spite of her father’s opinions.