Poor Upbringing

Unfortunately there can be factors that affects a parent’s involvement with their children that are out of the parent’s control. In low income families it can be hard to give a child every thing that they might need. Research in Pathways to Adaptive Emotion Regulation Among Adolescents from Low-Income Families proves the strong correlation between a child’s upbringing and development. Within this article, authors emphasize, “active parental emotion socialization efforts may be especially critical among adolescents from low-income families” (Criss, Michael M.1, et al.). The parent’s role in a child’s success is far more impactful to a child of a low income family. A child that has grown up poor has less of a chance in gaining success. Parents of a low income family have to push their children to achieve more than they think they are capable of because those parents were never able to gain success. It is hard for a child to believe that they can achieve their goals because of their environment. Gladwell talks about the different circumstances between poor and rich children and states, “the working-class and poor children were characterized by ‘an emerging sense of distrust, and constraint.’ They didn’t know how to get their way, or how to ‘customize’ […] whatever environment they were in, for their best purposes” (105). Children that grow up with less feel like they deserve less, so they struggle to take advantage of their surroundings and opportunities at hand. Parents of these low income families need to step in to help their children realize all the chances that they could potentially have. There is a difference in the parenting style that is needed in this less fortunate environment and it is something that these low income parents need to recognize.