I wish someone had told my parents poor people shouldn’t have kids

Being first generation college student genuinely sucks. I have to build everything from the ground up because my parents just decided to have children (me in this context) without realising the implications of having children. I wish someone had told them that having children is not only being food and shelter. But it is investing in their education and culture. I am 23 years old and I go to prestigious school and I realise that all of my peers play instruments, play sports and can afford to do unpaid internships. Meanwhile my parents never sought to enroll me in any extracurricular activities. My mom only cared about her fucking church, forcing us and sometimes beating us to go to church every stupid Sunday after we spent a whole week of going to school and doing homework on Saturday. The only time she’s ever tried to get me to enroll me in some kind of extracurricular was when she was trying to force me to learn the piano with a bunch of amateurs teachers… for Sunday service. She’s never cared about my own cultural development. And the worst part of that is I turned out to be an atheist. My dad is a completely useless. All he knew was gambling, partying and complaining about his job.

Now I am an adult in my mid 20s having to build financial independence, getting my education together, taking care of my parents, trying to be an educated and cultivated young person while simultaneously climbing the corporate ladder… all of that just because my parents carelessly decided to have me knowing that they can’t afford it and I didn’t ask for anything. It’s exhausting.