I feel for your difficult situation. Please note that those who ridicule a person in difficult life situation are more in need of repairing their thought process than anyone else. I am glad a forum like PC provides an avenue to vent. Speaking of remedying the indifference by ones own children towards one's own elderly parents, along the lines of child welfare services hold parents accountable, it would be good to have a reciprocal protection for the elderly by the government holding grown-up children accountable.