No, maybe her family needs to step up to the plate. While there are many poor families saddled with caretaking responsibilities, there are many more who aren’t willing to live more humbly or go without the latest electronics to provide for their family members. It is a rare person who is willing to drive a beater and give up TV and internet and going out to eat to provide something their elderly or ill family members need. The government needs to quit doing things that destroy families and communities and turns people into selfish little whiners who run to the government first when they have a problem, rather than consider giving up that $60,000 truck purchase, going without a gym membership, trips to the beautician, or settling for ham and beans.
It isn’t the disabled person who causes the problem, it is the attitudes of the self-centered able.
Thanks for your post, piasa, pointing out how the addiction to comfort and wealth comes before children for so many. Previous generations didn’t have dirt, would have child after child, and would willingly sacrifice for those children. Yet they seemed much happier than today’s conscience-burdened, narcissistic, neurotic self and wealth-seekers.
I’ve had a couple of periods of years where I’ve struggled financially. Kept up an old car, clipped coupons, looked for bargains, did without newer clothes and eating out, had humbler meals and it didn’t really make me unhappier because I try to live more for Heaven than earth.