How Being Poor Makes You Poor

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10. Yup.

Old research, repeated a few times.

One problem is that you look at 16-year-olds and they're already making all the same choices that reportedly result from having to struggle to make ends meet and worry about food and shelter.

Except that they're not. Instead they just have inherited all the stress and all the mental anguish and all the emnity (etc.) even though they're not actually in the game yet.

The kids I knew that made it from a working class background had parents who didn't share their troubles and pass along their problems. Those that didn't tended to speak as though their parents problems for the last 30 years had been their own, even though they were only 16 or 17.