WDL, you and I both know that it would not be nice at all ... the example they set for their children insures that the next generation will also be laying in bed all day saying gimmee, gimmee, gimmee ... It is a vicious cycle that needs to be broken. Many [not all] of them make it very difficult to feel generous.
A wise person I once knew told me that the government took so much money from him to give for "charitable" purposes that he no longer felt it necessary to give more.
Hang tough! You sound like you are doing a great job. You should be proud of your accomplishments. My ex decided she didn't want to be married or be a mother and walked. I was 12 years into a 20 year Army career, and suddenly had three kids, ages 13, 11 and 6 to care for. The oldest a son, the other two, daughters. My 11 year old daughter was my salvation. Without her to help me, I would have been sunk. But, I hung in and did what I had to do. I finally retired mainly because the Army wanted me to go to Korea for a year without them, and I had no where but a 70 plus year old mother to leave them with. So, I called it a career. Hang Tough!
You people have NO FREEKIN IDEA about the people of New Orleans or what is going on down here.You are some of the most ignorant people I have ever seen