WTF? In the old days I'd almost never run into this. More often young dancers were spreading their wings, trying to support themselves and some young DB and maybe do some traveling. The girl who is the runner up for my ATF title was a young lady who had to support her destitute mother, but back then she was the only girl I knew in that situation. Most often when a girl was supporting others, it was the aforementioned DB and maybe a kid or two.
Apparently times are changing, or at least I'm seeing it more since I relaxed my minimum age standards a bit. I keep meeting younger dancers who are providing for their grown parents and sometimes even siblings. I'm talking about food, cell phone family plans, utilities, transportation expenses, etc., for a whole grown ass family. Most often one or both of the parents have substance abuse issues. One girl recently told me that her Dad even asked her to score drugs for him ITC. Fuck.
What a shameful state of affairs. I know that I often celebrate situations that make OTC possible with otherwise reluctant hot young strippers, but some thing just can't be celebrated. As a parent, I just can't imagine how a grown adult can that to a daughter, especially a grown man. Those parents are basically pimping their daughters out, whether they realize it or not.
Unfortunately drugged out parents pimping out the daughter is nothing new. I haven't had any tell me they were supporting their parents but I have seen it with other family members. A former fave said her normal day job paid her bills and she was stripping 2 days a week to help her little sister go to private school since the public school where she lived was a shithole. Another regular said she was providing basically the only source of income for her sister's kids because her sister was a drug addict.