My parents don't support my major?

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I'm a college sophomore. At the start of college when I was a freshman, I was SURE I wanted to be an English major. But somewhere between then and now (it's my second semester), something changed. I am not as passionate as I was about it before. My school had this event where students officially declare their major by signing their name in a book and then you get a button and pamphlet. I signed my name and officially declared it, but afterwards I still felt unsure. My friends were so proud of what they signed: taking pictures, posting on Facebook how excited they were, proudly wearing their buttons. I didn't feel like that at all. I still was unsure and uncomfortable. When people asked me I didn't want to talk about it at all.

I want to change, but the problem is my parents don't really support anything else I want to do. The other day I brought up that I was considering switching to sociology (I want to be an adoption counselor), and my dad said in the most condescending tone: "Sociology? What would you do with that? Why don't you just stick with English?" Everything I suggest changing to, my parents shoot down: psychology, sociology, social work, etc.

They're paying for school, so I understand that they'd want me to do something practical. But I hate feeling like I have to choose my major around what they want. Advice?
You know what? Forget it. I'm just going to go into the teaching program. Thanks everybody for the help.