It's implied the parents have tried for ages to the point of giving up, only for Mae to make it through.
While a sweet moment in general, it is quite a Tear Jerker when Mae's mom reveals that Mae is the only successful child after many miscarriages. Instead of telling her about her day and what she's doing, all she has to say is a curt, ".I'm busy." Talking to her after the fight when she's at work, and it turns out she's still mad at Mae. The two proceed not to talk to each other for the rest of the night. Mae fires back that the only reason her mother cares so much is because she was trying to live her dreams of going to college through Mae to make up for her own failures. Mae's mother gets passive aggressive about Mae coming back home from college despite all the money they spent on getting her there, then accuses Mae of not caring that they might lose their house. Mae's possible fight with her mother is a big one, considering how well the two have gotten along up until that point. It's a sobering reminder about his disappearance, and you're infinitely more likely to see it over the missing persons poster in Town Centre. all except the bottom one, Casey's, and clicking it shows his never-changing away message. 
Any time Mae signs in to her laptop, you can typically see messages from each of her main friends. And you know what? Until that happens, I want to hope again. I want to hold on until I'm thrown off and everything ends. When my friends leave, when I have to let go, when this entire town is wiped off the map, I want it to hurt. Regardless of who you end up confessing her side of the "Killer" incident to, Mae, still concussed from nearly getting shot and falling into a ravine just a few days prior, has left her weak and feeling completely useless. It's highly likely that she suffers from disassociation, and fears that things in her life will lose meaning as she grows older. Mae suffered a severe psychotic break during her childhood that resulted in her severely beating another child at a softball game. Mae's deteriorating mental health throughout the game ends up causing her to confess the "killer" incident to either Bea or Gregg. 
Mae is unimpressed, but the player is probably remembering how Bea's mom died after a long battle with cancer, the treatment of which was steep enough to force her and her dad to lose the house. While Mae's answers are things like skeletons in your hallway, Bea's answers are about shady health insurance agents trying to profit off your family's misery.
If you go grave robbing with Bea, she and Mae play a game of saying things that are scary. In the woods behind the church, a homeless man has set up an encampment, because he has nowhere else to go. The art teacher who reads poetry at the library struggles to keep her art classes afloat with very little funding. The fisherman who fishes in the underground trolley tunnel was abandoned by his wife, if his song is any indication. The deer-woman who works the night shift at the video store is a single parent who is living with her mother. One of the two good ol' boys in front of the bar is succumbing to depression. Even the background characters lead lives of quiet desperation. Poverty forced him to sell his house and move into a small, run-down apartment with Bea. Santello plunged into a deep depression after his wife's death and now relies on his daughter to run his business. Then it's revealed Mae is severely mentally ill (and can't get the proper treatment because the town doctor is a highly incompetent Master of None), has done things that have only alienated her further in the past, and then the woods start acting up. Gregg seems to be the only person who's happy to see her return, minus her parents, and even then, after coming back, her bonding with her friends ends up causing them trouble (reawakening Gregg's crime loving attitude which causes friction between Gregg and Angus, accidentally letting slip on a party Bea invited Mae to that Bea never went to college, causing Bea to run away). Mae is a Womanchild and a college dropout that left due to feeling constantly alienated, only to return to her dying home and learn almost everyone wants nothing to do with her or only remembers the bad things she's done to them or others. 
Poverty, depression, stagnation, and loneliness are common refrains in the characters' lives. Almost no one in Possum Springs is happy.Night in the Woods had claimed to be about depression. WARNING: Spoilers Off applies to Tear Jerker pages.
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