I come from an extremely similar background to yours, and due to the proximity to the situation and the trauma it causes, I think people with a past like this t

I come from an extremely similar background to yours, and due to the proximity to the situation and the trauma it causes, I think people with a past like this tend to massively overestimate the pervasiveness of this behavior and how large of a problem it actually is. For every one of these people there are many more who aren’t like this and do manage to claw their way out of poverty (or at least give their children a legitimate shot at it) with the help of social programs.