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[quote=Anonymous]I am seeking opinions, advice, comfort, criticism, whatever  - any feedback you have to offer. Quick background: I am single parent of large household and have a home-based business that i depend on to support my family. I am managing financially and in other ways - but barely! i think i am giving my kids the best i possibly can and like most people, working very hard to do so. Nothing has been "given" to me. Leaving out a lot of details here in hopes of preserving everyone's privacy - some vagueness is intentional. 
My brother on the other hand has been struggling financially for his entire adult life. and has not done much (that i know of) to improve his situation. Since becoming a parent (there several kids now, all elem school aged and younger) he has become increasingly dependent on help from family members (including myself), government programs (food stamps and i don't know what else), and friends. help from family and friends in the form of cash, material goods, and childcare so that he and wife could work. But all the help was not enough, they could not make ends meet. Unfortunately they were evicted from rental house last winter and had to relocate to a basement apartment not really suitable for a family but was not intended to be permanent. Now the wife is out of the picture and they are once again in need of a place to stay. He will not consider a shelter or anything involving a group house, etc. instead looking to be taken in by someone. I have not volunteered because this is not something that i feel i can take on. I would have to give up my business and don't have another source of income so really for that reason alone it is not an option. Honestly though, even if there was not the issue of my work i do no think i could manage to take care of an entire family in addition to my own! Other family members have questioned my "supposed inability" to take them in and this has just left me distraught. It is my mother's opinion that i have a responsibility to help take of them. I have helped him in every way that i can and at times it has taken me away from my primary responsibility (my children). I think it is time for a social worker to step in! What do you all think of this? [/quote]

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