First, thank God you made it out of that situation OK.
Second, thank you for sharing your experience.
I know someone who co-signed a loan for someone who couldn’t pay for some needed health care because the person: (a) had other financial priorities that were sort of frivolous, (b) didn’t hold down a steady job, and (c) had declared bankruptcy so was incapable of borrowing money.
The scenario you shared reminded me of the movie Parenthood (1988). It describes (among other things) a situation in which an adult ne’er-do-well son shows up on his elderly Dad’s doorstep with a bastard son from a one-night stand (I guess the mother abandoned the child, or something) and a load of gambling debt over which some shady people were demanding payment. The father said he’d lend his son the money, but on the condition the son had to commit himself to working for his father for a set number of years until it was paid off. The son agreed, the money changed hands, and then the son skipped town — for good.
Of course grandfather ended up raising the grandson.
So sad.
It happens all the time.
I saw a good film along those lines today
Room For One More (1952)
A family with three children takes in troubled orphans.
Dir: Norman Taurog Cast: Cary Grant , Betsy Drake , Lurene Tuttle .
BW-95 mins, TV-G,