[lmr]

Then they left them home alone to fend for themselves. Latchkey parenting earns a latchkey old age.

Indeed. This is what my parents did to us. My step-dad and my mother also used my father's Social Security death benefits for the 3 of us (my brother, my sister and me) to finance the expansion of their business in the early days. I'm 40 years old and I've been taking care of myself since I was 10 or 11. I can honestly say that my parents are probably the most selfish people that I know and this will be taken into consideration by me when they need help real soon. My sister is incapable of giving them what they need and my brother is deceased. I'm the only one that can help them, but for that, I have little desire.

Baby-Boomers: The 'Me' generation. You reap what you sow.

[Strk321]

We mentioned in another thread on here that elder suicide should be discouraged. In some cases though, maybe it’s not such a bad idea...