His unmarried sister and sick parents expect a lot from him.
In order to care for the sick parents, the children have to take on more responsibility by working to produce an income.
We ought to help families provide long-term care for a sick parent to a disabled child.
There are 200,000 such families, and more than half of them include a sick or disabled parent.
The sick parent, as was expected, was nowhere to be seen.
There wasn't a house that hadn't feverish children and sick parents.
Some even keep up with school work while caring for younger siblings and the sick parent.
Neither was having two sick parents to care for.
He could not outdo his own sick parents by killing a child.
"It's the dream of every kid with sick parents," I tell him.