I have been a mother for more than half of my life span. Just because I am unwilling to crush her dreams, doesn't mean I don't see the realty of how limited her job options will be as compared to other fields.
Well, depending on what, how, where she's studying, job options aren't nearly as limited as folks seem to believe. I honestly think people
enjoy believing an artist's options are limited. But it's an extremely wide arena. While the percentage of people who are going to succeed as fine/gallery artists is low (and that's fairly well-understood by most anyone getting a studio art degree), there are many, many related professions to follow. The idea of an art degree being useless, or the notion of the "starving artist" being intrinsic to art is complete baloney. I don't even think most people understand what an art degree can involve. They just like saying it's useless.
Plus there's the obvious aspect of following a personal calling... Which is it's own thing entirely.
Also, related to my new "glass half-full" outlook, maybe there'll be a mishap with illusionray's "high-value" art that he didn't buy and his derriere.