Anonymous wrote:I have to laugh. I grew up with a good number of criminals, some are related to me, some are friends. Some of them I trust, some of them not. I was able to break away from the group because I went to college and rarely came home. I then moved out here to DC. When I go home to visit, I see them. They're actually really good to my mom who's elderly. Mom was always friendly to them, always fed them and always had a place for them to sleep/do their laundry. They do repairs on the house (many are in the construction industry), repair her car, etc. They also have their kids clean her driveway and cut her grass. Many of them still get high but not many are still engaged in criminal activity - other than things like insurance fraud, drug abuse, etc.
+1 I grew up with many criminals, all the way down to murderers. They're not part of my daily life, but they have helped me immensely with my mom since my father passed. I now live 500 miles away and I know they check in on her and help out when things break around the house. Sure they all did a bad thing, but they were never bad to me or my family and I don't think they ever would be.