This can definitely put stress on the retirement plan. It can also put stress on the family.

Every possible stress you have has got to be there. The baby blues, being separated from your family, and also not knowing where you're going to go or what's going to happen in the long run.

Naturally, we are honored that MIT has added our family of funds to its employees' retirement plans,

Dinner has been the biggest stress in our family life.

Every kid in the family, besides Marvel, left the house by the age of 16. There was less stress living on our own than trying to survive in the environment we were in. I don't know how Marvel did it. He spent his time playing football, but the cards were stacked against him.

Arleen’s children did not always have a home. They did not always have food. Arleen was not always able to offer them stability; stability cost too much. She was not always able to protect them from dangerous streets; those streets were her streets. Arleen sacrificed for her boys, fed them as best she could, clothed them with what she had. But when they wanted more than she could give, she had ways, some subtle, others not, of telling them they didn’t deserve it.