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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's not unfair. Do you know how hard a person has to work to overcome a drug addiction?  You make more than two times what she does. You CHOSE to have children. She did not chose to have a drug addiction. She is doing the best she can. You are doing the best you can. The best you can do gets you MUCH farther than the best she can do gets her.

I would bet my $40k salary that if i looked at your budget you are spending money you could be saving for that down payment on wants rather than on needs. [/quote]

Funny how people read into things what they want to believe. There was no addiction. There was a lifestyle choice to do drugs and not have a serious job. She was not doing the best she could. Even now she is not. The issue isn't whether I am good with money. It's whether it's fair to give big handouts to one kid and not the other. Sis doesn't really need the money anyway, she just gets a nicer house this way. [/quote]

Not that PP, but it sounds like your sister's drug use and underemployment may be symptoms of something like depression or ADD, untreated. Drug use is OFTEN self-medication for underlying problems.  People who have issues like this get by, but they are underperforming.  I'd try to have a little empathy, if that's the case.

In "any" case, though, would you rather be living your life or hers?   Would you trade places with her to get the cash from your parents?   Or are you happy enough as it is?   [/quote]

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