about families: I don’t claim that people of lower/higher socioeconomic statuses have a correlating level of love and care for their kids. I don’t think it matters how much one makes will necessarily determine their parenting style either. However at this moment, I was thinking of how some parents struggle to spend time with their children (especially in the formative years) because they must work through days and nights to support the family. In these cases, sort of like my father’s family, physical and emotional parental guidance may be sparse if the sole focus is to provide food on the table. Thus, my father and his siblings may not have received confirmation from my grandparents that they believed their kids to be capable of succeeding in their academics and pursuing higher education, should they have wanted to.  It isn’t that my grandparents didn’t love their kids; the focus was simply not placed on providing emotional support and building self confidence in their abilities, but rather providing a home and practical necessities for everyone which is responsible and selfless on its own*