When I was 8; I worked with a crew installing mobile homes. I was especially valued for the double wides; I was light enough to work the roofline without dentin

When I was 8; I worked with a crew installing mobile homes. I was especially valued for the double wides; I was light enough to work the roofline without denting the roof. At 11 I was operating construction machinery, I had to hide from the inspectors on some jobs but on others I could talk to them. State vs. Federal I think: the State guys could be bribed. At 16 software I had written (bid estimation) was selling for $2k a seat to earthwork contractors all over North America. Anything I got paid went right to the parents to pay off "debts" they considered I owed them. They kept this up until I stopped letting them. At 35, I wanted to marry my wife and start a family, when I told my parents about this they were so happy they'd be getting another slave they started planning all the uses they could put her to in front of me. I realized that this proposed behavior was just as unacceptable applied to me, as it would be to her. My Dad died a few years later, I had to help wind up his businesses, which was eye opening: I was President of one company and Treasurer of another (I'd never agreed to do either job, hadn't been aware of the one company at all). There were emails about how they could hide hundreds of thousands of dollars from me, contemporaneous with times when I had sold belongings and stretched my credit to keep "our" business running. I'm (obviously) still dealing with all that. My child gets told to pursue self determination and never do business with blood relations.