Sure - every parent wants what is best for their kid. But these schemes, reserved only for the priviledged few, are actually counter productive and in the long run damaging for the future of their children. The pay-to-fly crowd are destroying the industry and the only real winners are the owners of the organisations involved. Sure parents get a buzz out of telling their friends their kid is an airline pilot (for a few months!) but once their hours are up and there's no money in the pot to pay an airline to fly their plane, then it's back off to the pile whilst a new set of pay-to-flys get their couple of months fun and so on.
Of course, when the airlines are furiously cutting costs, freezing recruitment and making layoffs, CTC can quite happily pitch up at the door and say "you WILL take these cadets and give them jobs."
No, instead they pitch up at the door and collaborate with airlines to make even more money out of pretty desperate people in the hold pool - some of who have been there 2+ years. The very same airlines who previously employed CTC graduates are now treating them as revenue streams.