I think my wife's family is totally taking advantage of the situation. Helping out is acceptable yet they entire family wants her to support them. I always felt that since they had no bills that her two brothers, sister and two-sister in laws could manage to pay for at least food and day-to-day living expenses but apparently not.
The other thing that is crazy it the absolute lack of financial sense among her family. They don't have money for food yet they all have cell phones. Then one of brothers gets his wife pregnant and now they have a kid. I guess it never occurred to him that having a kid may not be a good idea as he cannot even support himself or his wife. Then when my wife gave her sister her credit card so that she could get herself a birthday present, the sister goes out and gets a cell phone costing over $600 USD - how considerate.
Also, I would be in support of helping the family if they tried to help themselves yet their idea of contributing is making sure they call us whenever they need more money. Apparently working to support themselves is a foreign concept that has little interest to them.