[pmarsh]

I find it amazing at the untold strength in parents like these. Just ordinary folks who somehow find a way to keep on trying and pushing and doing their best when faced with unimaginable challenges.

They fall and get up and keep going.

Makes so many other problems many of us have to face really seem more like "problems".

[EC1]

This perspective is romanticizing their hardships. The reality is probably that they have no way out and they are stuck in a cycle.

[Ygg2]

Sadly, story doesn't end here. Now the brother is autistic, possibly schizophrenic and the parents are divorced.

[pmarsh]

Ugh you're right. It seems they romanticized it in their own heads as well. And in the end they're just humans.

The dad wrote a post about it all : http://janifoundation.org/blog/

Wish them all the best either way, it cannot be an easy journey.