The money thing comes from the fact that we were on all sorts of government assistance, so "head count" of children was important as we each physical got them a certain amount of money, or housing allowance or food stamps etc. Physically we were an issue to . We weren't allowed to be home on the weekends... School kept us out of the house M-F. Come Friday night we needed to have a plan as to where we were going and how we were getting there. ( I was to find places for the younger ones) So we were not in their way much as they required us not to be home and they gambled every night from 6-11, so THEY weren't at home. I liked NOT to be around them. When I was around them it never ended well for ME.