📝 AITA for not helping more?

By Ka-ili-Kat • Score: 5 • April 5, 2025 6:15 PM


I am a mom to a 15 month boy. In February I donated 76 oz of milk to a family who's primary bread winner had just lost his job and they were forced to move into a hotel to cut costs. While speaking with him, I learned that they were running low on diapers, and had no wipes, so while dropping off the milk, I brought them roughly $80 in Newborn, size 1, size 2, size 4, and size 5, because those were the sizes they said they needed, and threw in two new packs of wipes because they needed my help and I could do so. Midway through March, I texted the dad again, asking if they needed more milk. I got a text back on April first, stating that they were at the local library, and while they would like the milk, their littles had blown out and they didn't have any more diapers. So, again, I went, bought them diapers, brought them diapers and milk, made sure everything was alright. I drew the line at buying them a brand new diaper bag, as even our bag for our son is second hand because it wasn't something we could really afford to splurge on at the time (they wanted a $75 diaper bag for their littles). This brings me to today, and wondering if I'm the asshole. From what I understand, they have 4 or 5 kids, and still haven't found a place to stay. We woke up around midnight to our son choking on his own vomit in his sleep, at didn't get home from the ER until almost 7 am. In the last hour, this family (the wife is using her husband's facebook now) has texted more than a dozen times and just keeps calling me, asking for diapers and talking about how they really don't have a place and I've just been so nice to them... we live in a 2 bedroom apartment that you can cross in about 20 steps, and our child is sick, so I told her I was sorry, but I wouldn't be leaving the house today because my child is sick and we're still waiting on the viral panel results. Keeping in mind that this family allegedly has not one but two now three month old children, she told me that she's sorry that he's sick but she really needs my help and she needs me to bring him out to come and help them. AITA for saying no? I dont know what my child has, and not only am I worried about him, but I don't want to be responsible for spreading it to any or all of their children, especially if they can't afford the medical bills to go with it. We also really don't have the money to keep buying them diapers because my husband's insurance didn't cover the whole trip, so we have to cover the ER bill now too, which was obviously not figured into our expenses. I want to help them, but it's just not feasible right now... Am I the asshole?

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