The daughter of a former addict is struggling to cope with her studies and with taking responsibility for her father. Mariella Frostrup says its time to put herself firstI live with my dad,a single parent who has been on benefits most his life and was a heroin and cocaine addict until I was 15. I helped him accept clean once we acknowledged his problems together, but he continues to believe compulsive hoarding problems and cannot control his money. He hopes to eventually set up a man and van” business. I recently tried to apply for a larger overdraft and university hardship grant, and but was denied due to the £750 of my dad’s savings under my name. I had to transfer the money to him to increase my overdraft,but I am haunted he will now spend frivolously the money we believe worked tough for him to save over the past four years.
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Source: theguardian.com