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Keep your family and money separate. It usually always ends poorly otherwise.
by notyourwork 8y ago
Keep your family and money separate. It usually always ends poorly otherwise.
- white-flame 8y agoI think the two terms used by you and the parent don't always overlap neatly: "your family" and "those you love"
- fzeroracer 8y agoSounds like you haven't had to deal with family members in abject poverty before? My parents can't work, for example. They're both disabled and rely on food stamps plus medicare just to survive. This puts a rather large financial burden on me at times to say the least, because I would rather not see my parents starve to death. If only we had a government that took better care of people in poverty. Imagine that.
- rhexs 8y agoHow, exactly, are they going to starve to death on food stamps? Some sort of fancy medical diet Medicaid isn’t covering?
- fzeroracer 8y agoBecause food stamps gives them about 180 dollars a month to feed two people. That's hardly enough to survive a month, especially for two disabled people that also have trouble cooking for themselves.
- opo 8y ago>...If only we had a government that took better care of people in poverty. Have they tried getting SSDI? No one gets rich off of that, but it is one of the major government programs to help support those with disabilities.
- fzeroracer 8y agoUnfortunately they've tried and were denied.
- oldboyFX 8y agoDepends on how balanced your family is and who you're giving the money to. Funding a peter pan brother is not the same as funding your retired parents so that they can afford some extra luxuries like travel and enjoy the rest of their lives. And then there's the difference between loaning and gifting money.