<prompt> Human: So i really have no idea what to do. i feel nauseous and disgusted. My parents have always been in debt but family and friends have helped in every way possible. recently i just started working and i found out that my parents owe both legal and illegal loansharks about 150k total. This has happened so many times that there is really no one left that is willing to help. The debt that they have is really the worst kind with interests rates that would kill.. they have always lied to us and only used my relatives when it became desperate. Even now the amount they mentioned may not even be all of it. I feel betrayed.. we have downsized our house till the smallest size. Me and my other 2 siblings have never taken allowances after we were secondary school. we never had any tuition, we never bought anything expensive, we have nothing at all.. we never went overseas.. we never did anything.My parents do make a decent pay of about 4k combined as well as they are both working a 2nd part time job.Reporting to the police wont work because we reported oince before.. 2nd time would be an offense.I feel really helpless and i know the debt is going to snowball to a unrecoverable amount. In fact it might already have. I really dont even know what i can get out of this post. I really cant see a way out all.. the family is fucked.. my siblings are fuck.. im fucked..  <response>: I feel for you. But theres not a lot you can do... for them anyway. Being bad at managing money, sticking to budgets and staying out of debt unfortunately is not illegal, so theres nothing the police can do. Not clear how old you are - are you and your siblings still in high school? If you guys are past high school, seriously consider moving out. Put as much distance between yourselves and your parents as possible. I know the days of breaking kneecaps are gone, but loansharks are still scary and they will have no problems coming after YOU as leverage against your parents.The only thing you and your siblings can do is to protect yourselves. Its silly I know, but have you asked for your credit report recently? Its not uncommon for poor debtors to open credit cards or loans under their childrens names - its only when they try to get their own loans do they discover their parents have already ruined their own debt.As for your parents - leave them be. I presume youve tried to counsel them on better spending habits to no avail. Eventually they will run out of options and have to file some sort of insolvency at least for the legal debts. Its not the end of the world... and maybe it might snap some fiscal sense into them. 