You are so right... My mother when she married my father at 25, she openly took my father’s father in. This was just after a month after they got married. My Dad’s sisters refused or came up with excuses not to do so. My mother cared for my grandpa for three years before he died.
My eldest sister took in my mother the last ten years of my mother’s life. I would have, except my mom didn’t want to go to Colorado. She liked California.
So true about babies and the elderly, many people just don’t want to be around them... SAD.
Your mother was a good woman.