By Esau McCaulley

I Grew Up Poor. How Am I Supposed to Raise My Middle-Class Kids?

At my family’s Thanksgiving, we all go around the table and name something we are grateful for. I am thankful for my wife and children. I am thankful for the life that they live. But I am also thankful for the things I suffered that made me who I am and for the ways that such suffering does not let you go. It ties you to all the other hurting people of the world. It gives your success a vocation and a purpose: to create more happy families gathering for family meals.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/24/opinion/poor-dad-rich-kids.html