Even if we grant that that’s the biggest problem here, what exactly does it imply that anyone in this situation should do? The woman whose story opens the artic

Even if we grant that that’s the biggest problem here, what exactly does it imply that anyone in this situation should do? The woman whose story opens the article has let her father live with her family and trimmed back her fledgling business. What more is the knowledge that in the past people lived differently supposed to let her know that she should do?