Kleptomania Support Group

It's not little items, and perhaps it goes into something else that she can't manage money, or just doesn't understand it. She takes money from us, her kids. She is in deep debt, and it hurts the family. She has taken money from my oldest brother b/c she is on our bank accounts to help do transactions for us when we aren't home (I'm in college). Today was the first day I noticed she took money from me, $550. I got a almost $3k deposit for my loans to go towards my housing and books, but I notice the withdraw and asked about it and she said she needed help to catch up. I know dad would flip out if he found out.

What do I do to stop my mom from stealing money from her kids to manage her debt? It's sad, b/c she is taking the money to get of the debt, to get rid of the problems, but she just keeps digging a deeper hole. She doesn't understand money, and it's like she refuses to. She thinks selling the other house will help, but it will just be considered income, taxed and no profit, making more debt and owning less than what we have.
What do I do to help and stop it?
Posted on 10/25/09, 02:10 pm