I can add. It's not that hard to figure out. They quite simply lived for the moment, or as we call it around here, "a bad case of the IG's," instant gratification. He might have been a great guy, but he didn't give him wife and children one thought.
If you know something else about this family, please tell the rest of us. Instead you are critisizing me....and I am not asking for charity.
As for knowing what has gone on with them, I have an educated opinion. I see it all the time. Check it out in your own home town. Look in the obituary section of your newspaper and find someone who died under the age of 65. In three months, if that person did not have adequate life insurance, the odds are 90% that the family home will be for sale.