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Your parents are just trying to get by just like everyone else. One thing I learnt far too late in life is that my parents are just regular people like everyone else. But that's a big conceptual step to take when you've grown up with people who have provided and taught you everything you know. My advice, take a break, go live somewhere on your own for a while and get an idea of what it's like. Tell your parents that's what you want to do, but make sure the door is still open in case you want to come back. Don't make it an issue, just try it out. It's no big deal either way - but it will give you some valid experience at an important time in your life. Make sure they know you love them and that you just want to dip a toe in the waters of independance.
As for college, can you take a year out? I found that rushing into college to do a course I had little interest in didn't do me a great deal of good. As long as you think you can go back when you HAVE found something you are interested in, then a year out working is valid experience that will help you realise the importance of college for when you do go.
Seriously there are so many things you can do to make the most of your situation, the trick is to take those opportunities without burning any of the important family bridges and supports that we all need when times get hard.
I hope you don't mind me talking like this, I feel like I'm offering advice when it's not been asked for (something I personally find deeply condescending when it happens to me) My deepest and sincerest apologies if that is the case.
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