I think one of the biggest is the parents who found out way too late after they found out their child had passed away, that they owed so much money to the government.
I've had so many people come to the retreats. Right now the retreats are focused on mothers who have lost a child, and a lot of the mothers who come are single. They don't have that double income. They don't have an employer who gave them access to longer leave. In the end, they had to quit their jobs because they went back to work and had emotional and mental breakdowns.
I think that struck me the hardest: thinking about their being back at work, struggling to be there, hearing other people talk about their children and families and having to sit through that or in the end leave and not make any money, because that was what they had to do, making money but hearing such difficult things.
Yes, I've heard a lot of terrible stories where families had to survive on such measly incomes and not make it through, because they already took their sick leave and had to return to work. Those are the ones that most impacted me.