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Also picked up some responses from this thread.

"We're still not doing much better now. Still up to their eyeballs in debt. Still not able to get much help. Still leading decently cushy lives and still feeling a little guilty for it even though I never chose it for myself and my parents don't regret prioritizing our happiness over their finances. I am glad I learned about this so I know not to be greedy or think we're infallible, but I wish at the very least it would've waited until I was older and that there was something significant that I could do to help. I just want to pull them out of this mess for good, but I don't have the means, and it's been eating away at me for years. So yeah, I might've been better off not knowing."