I am asking your opinion Brother, and seeking advice.

I believe my mother had a spell put on her as a young child by her paternal grandmother. I think it may be effecting all of us, kids and grandkids.

My grandmother, my mother's mother was Catholic but not particularly practicing. My mother's father, was Baptist. His mother despised Catholics and I have proof of this. I found her last will dis inheriting my mom's father because he was married to a Catholic. She also warned if any other family member married a Catholic they would be dis inherited too and she went on to say "No more Catholics in my family, (my grandmother's name) has nearly killed me..." From what my mom's mom has told me, this women "practiced Haitian voodoo from the hills of Carolina." She said she was paranoid and believed people were trying to poison her. It was said she was mentally ill but my grandmother, thought this woman put curses on things and people, including my mother. She said she caught her in the act of putting a curse on my mother that involved putting a lock of hair in a sock and hiding it in her luggage.

Now objectively speaking, my mother’s life has been a train wreck. She was an only child, (my grandmother suffered 7 miscarriages. My grandfather was extreamly addicted to sex and had many extra marital affairs.) My mother turned out the same way. She was raised Catholic, received all the sacraments and from what I was told, was good but after her first marriage that was in the Church, “grew bored” of him so divorced and started on a path of drunkenness and sexual addiction. She was married 3 other times to men who never loved her and/or were alcoholics who had other serious issues. She had 5 kids who she abandoned us all, we were raised by her mother and other family. She her self was also involved with the occult claming she had "gifts" of reading palms, cards, astrology charts. Her uncles (dad's side) were also involved in occult activity and one even committed suicide, one was homosexual. The ironic thing is, spite all this, she alays seems to be take care of/no harm will come to her. She has suffer no real consequenses for her acts. She always comes up smelling like a rose.

Now as for her children, we have issues, we have children who have disabilities from Cerebral Palsy, Autism, depression, drug abuse. One sister rebuked Catholicism and 2nd marriage was a sacrilegious ceremony on Halloween but claims it was "just fun," not serious. Another sister was molested by one of my mom's husbands, etc.

I'm Catholic and strongly believe in the Church but I struggle to stay going to Mass /confession and miss Mass for long stretches. I have failed to raise my kids Catholic in the way I should due to my, what I call sloth.

Can this be due to a curse or just our own bad choices/enviroment?

Opinion? Any advice?