Some children help look after someone in their family by:

• Staying in the house a lot to be there for them.
• Helping them to get up, get washed or get dressed.
• Doing lots of the household chores like shopping, cleaning, cooking . . . and maybe looking after younger brothers and sisters as well

For many families, this seems like the only option – you may be a single parent family with no relatives living nearby, or a two parent family but one of you works long hours.