I grew up in a working class family.

I just sat through a class on poverty. It always triggers negative emotions. Most of the class grew up in a middle class family... and in the past I have put myself in that catagory, but today I couldn't. A middle class family is usually a family that has parents that went to college. My mom is in college right now to be a nurse and my dad won't ever go. It isn't necessary for him to go. He will make good money taking over my grandparents business. It's not really a problem to realize this it just hits me wrong. Like parents in working class families don't do extra things with their kids.. like reading to them and such. So I guess my life makes sense except that my gparents jumped in and took me all over the world and bought me whatever I wanted that throws me into a weird part of this catagory. This pattern continues today... if i want something I'm not going to go to my dad or my mom... I'll call my grandparents.. hope grandma answers and ask for whatever I need... or maybe its a want most of the time.
Talking about poverty also messes with me because I understand that it puts people into a different thought process like people in poverty don't think like I do. But it hurts because kids that grow up in poverty aren't going to have the chances to come out even when they are thrown in their face because I don't think the information gets thrown in their face in a way they understand. Like give a young adult who grew up in poverty money- they blow it fast... Because that is what they are use to. So the thing I would like to put out there to ponder is how do you get an adult to understand that they grew up in poverty and fight the thought processes, so that it isn't a continued process for life? I don't know the answer.