At first I was completely horrified by all your fucked up stories. But then I remembered my cousins.
The backstory (you could probably skip): My dad died when I was 2, and so my mom and I were mostly poor when I was growing up. We lived with my aunt and her husband for a while, and I had 3 cousins. The oldest was a guy, close to my age. Then I had two younger female cousins. So they were kind of like sisters. Anyway, their dad died of cancer (he was a shitbag, I'll do a separate section for that). We eventually part ways and we're living in different households, but still within a few minutes of eachother.
So anyway, my aunt is now single and she is collecting social security and welfare from her now dead husband (actually 2nd husband, first was divorced). She basically spends all her time online in chat rooms (this was mid-90's). It gets to the point where she'd have random people staying with them at their house all the time. This probably went on for almost a decade. I liked a lot of the people that'd live with them, but looking at it now it was incredibly fucked. Semi-related, but I later found out she's polyamorous and she'd be "dating" some of them.
End backstory.
So I moved away from my family at 18 because of the military, but I'd go back every year for Thanksgiving to visit. Over a series of 3 or 4 of these visits, I kept getting more fucked up information. Around the time the older female cousin was 15 or 16 and the younger was 12 or 13, it came out that one of the guys who their mother (my aunt) was dating had molested them. They were like 3-4 and 7-8 I think. Pretty fucked up. The trial was pretty brutal, since they were minors and scared shitless to testify against this guy (in the event that he wasn't convicted). He's currently in jail, and now every couple years I get to hear updates on his parole, which he was denied last month. I think he's also sent them death threats a few times.
The next year, I'm there and they tell me that the oldest female had been pregnant at 16 and got an abortion.
And then next year is when the whole polyamorous thing came out. Apparently my aunt had been driving up to Rhode Island or some shit for sex parties. It wasn't a big deal I guess, until that is she took her son (the oldest cousin) with her to partake (he was probably mid 20's at this point).
As far as my step-uncle (the one who died of cancer), he was apparently pretty hard into heroin. At one point he ended up getting shot in the head in a drug deal gone wrong in DC. He was a complete asshole and I think everyone was glad that cancer got him eventually. He abused the shit out of my oldest cousin (who was his step-son) and I even remember getting hit a few times by him. But I never got it like my cousin, who apparently was punished by using a lighter and burning his asshole.
So really, my aunt and her kids were incredibly fucked up. The cousins are 33, 24, and 22, and the oldest 2 are just barely finally turning their lives around a bit. But for the most part they've all been heavy drug users and pretty much fuckups. The youngest was in nursing school but ended up having severe back problems and had to drop out.