Downside to working with children is that you catch EVERYTHING. So while I'm home from work recovering from another non-COVID illness...
When my Dad died, my stepmum became a true single mother to my baby brother. She was a stay at home mother to a child not even in kindy, couldn't afford the house they'd owned, and had just lost the man she loved. She still wallowed less than Alice. She had practically nothing. Because she's a nice person and my mum is a nice person, my mum and stepdad moved her in with us while she got back on her feet. It took two months. She applied for every crappy job she could find, got my brother into day care, and rented an apartment. She worked three jobs for a while. Sometimes she'd have to work weekends and my mum would babysit my little brother so I could spend extra time with him. No charge to my stepmum. Stepmum has never remarried, but she now owns a nice little townhouse with a pretty courtyard, and works one full time job. Went back to uni and got a degree.
She told me she would have struggled a lot more without my mum's support and she was very lucky. But she also put all the effort into sorting something out, and she got that support because she wasn't a bleeping witch to everyone she came across.