RE: Is your family being supportive for your pet hobby?
Most species of snakes are completely harmless. Which are most of the species kept as pets. There are very few species that actually pose a threat to humans, and I would not advocate any of those as pets. But using that logic saying all snakes are dangerous, would be like saying it is dangerous to have a cocker spaniel, because wolves are dangerous.
And rather unusual stat, in the US, there have been less than half the number of deaths from pet snakes in the last 30 years, than there were from pet dogs in 2011. I don't remember the exact number, I should look that up again
On the original topic, my family is supportive, my better half thinks they are all kittens sometimes And our girls like everything, and want to keep everything, but of course don't want to take care of any of it.