In less than 10 hours, we’ve gotten more than 400 responses to our post that linked to a National Review article by a mother incensed over her daughter’s assignment to a co-ed dorm room at Stanford.

Many have expressed irritation with the mother, Karin Venable Morin, for appearing to try to exert too much control over her adult daughter’s life (she is a senior at Stanford.) Others have taken issue with Stanford for even making such rooms an option. Still other comments have rapped the daughter for missing the dorm meeting at which rooms were assigned, though nowhere in the article is there any indication that the daughter was disappointed in her assignment.

Late this afternoon (on the East Coast, at least), we received an extended comment from someone who described herself as “Karin Morin’s daughter, the person in question.” We spoke soon afterward, and she confirmed her full name, Daisy Morin. She is 22, and her major is film studies. She graduates June 14. (Toward the bottom of this post, you’ll find reference to a comment that arrived late tonight from Karin Morin.)

In her comment, the younger Ms. Morin confirms much of what our readers have suspected, namely that this matter is more a dispute between mother and child than between student and Stanford. The younger Ms. Morin writes:

This conflict has very little to do with Stanford and gender-neutral housing. Is has everything to do with my parents having a hard time adjusting to the fact that I’m out of the house (I’m the oldest), I’m 3,000 miles away, and -especially- that I’m a liberal agnostic while they are conservative Catholics. The NR really should have looked into this situation a little bit before publishing that article.

She also writes, “I was happy with my rooming situation. It made no sense to inconvenience a lot of busy people over something that wasn’t actually a problem for me.”

And she says in her comment that she moved into her co-op dorm fully aware of the possibility of “living in a co-ed room.”

When we spoke by phone, I asked Daisy Morin if her mother had made good on her promise — expressed in the National Review article — to refuse to pay for her daughter’s spring term at Stanford. The mother said she threatened to do so as a sign of her moral outrage at the institution for making such housing available.

Daisy Morin said her mother had indeed cut off her spring tuition payments. In response, the younger Ms. Morin said she had taken out $3,000 in loans, in addition to other loans she already had as part of her financial aid package.

You can read Daisy Morin’s comment in full here. If you wish to comment further, you can do so using the comment box below or the comment box on our original post.

Meanwhile, the comment posted tonight by Karin Morin begins:

I take no particular pleasure in putting my family situation into the public eye. I do think it’s important for other parents to know what they are buying. Some people like to call this concept “transparency.” We would have been happy to have a discussion of what room situations were and were not acceptable to us as a condition of helping with college. We do not believe in giving anyone a carte blanche with our money, even our adult children. Unfortunately, dependents tend to avoid conflict (and that includes college students). That’s why parents rely on institutional transparency. For me, the point of writing about what happened to our family is to help other parents know what questions to ask and what discussions to initiate.

You can read Karin Morin’s full comment here.

Finally, some of you asked in your comments — and in direct e-mails to me — for a bit more detail on the actual room that Daisy Morin was assigned, and whether it was one of several bedrooms off a main suite, or a single room. Lisa Lapin, a Stanford spokeswoman, wrote me tonight to say, “The room in question is a very large quad bedroom — so yes, a single room, but unusually large.”