I'm the first person in my family to go to college but my parents still call my PhD worthless because it's in art history instead of engineering and I'm thirty-five years old.
More people experience this than they realize.
Your success in a domain they don't value feels like failure to parents who measure worth through a narrow lens.
“Where Are You with Tiger parenting — East Asian model examined?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.