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[quote=Anonymous]I will chime in on this because my experience is illustrative. I had 8 siblings and was raised by incredibly hard working, but working poor parents. My mother cleaned hotel rooms and was a CNA. My dad drove a taxi and was a security guard. They worked double shifts nearly every day. I can count on my hand the amount of times I would have seen them at school as a child, including things like the cute school performances I rush out of work to try to catch with my kids now. My parents made an effort to take us to museums that were free here, but they were exhausted and stressed and scared. We spent a ton of time alone.

I was a book work and read constantly. We received a free set of encyclopedias and as a young kid, I would spend hours during the summer reading random tidbits. It was fun for me. I was ran around outside with the siblings, went to our local pool (if we could scrounge up change to get in) and watched an intense amount of television.

I graduated at the top of my class in high school. Went to a great college, got a medical degree, and am the "American dream." People say that to my face.  Three of my siblings had similar outcomes. The other four didn't. Depression, anxiety, and eventually substance abuse and crime took them from this world.

People aren't specimens. It's very difficult to tell what works, but for a sensitive kid, with potentially unserved special needs,  being in a high poverty, stressful situation is a one way ticket to screwed.

I see it now, even. Living on the other side, there's just a greater margin of error in terms of life you have as an upper middle class family. It's a privilege. [/quote]

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