@be4christ My parents didn't have it easy. Father came from a mid class family who owns agri land and one of the few who owned horses in town. They were doing okay but his father got sick later in life and most of the properties were sold (at yung iba kung paniniwalaan yung kwento, forcefully kinuha/binili using worthless mickey mouse money), what was left, pinaghatian pa nilang 8 siblings. Hindi malaki subdivided pero enough na for our own consumption yung bigas namin. High school tinapos then naging construction worker all his working years. Minsan may trabaho, minsan wala.
Mas mahirap naman sa mother side ko. Third of 12 siblings from a poor fam kaya teenager pa lang lumuwas na Metro Manila para maging katulong. SAHM from the start.
Wala silang naipon, cash, property or other investment aside sa nakatapos 3/5 saming magkakapatid. Puro kami utang at utang na loob sa mga kamag-anak growing up. Siblings have own families already now. Sakto lang.
70s na parents now and with father's meager pension na kulang pa sa gamot nila, everything else sagot ko na. Nung minamadali nila ako sa pagkuha ng bahay, naiinis ako at gusto ko sagutin na all their life, they had their chance na mag-ipon and buy their own para sana di kami nagrerenta at nakikitira ever since, tapos ako tong not 30 yet minamadali. Nag-anak pa ng more than they can afford tapos sakin ipapasalo yung mga kapatid kong not doing so well. Nahihimasmasan din ako so di ko nabblurt out pag galit but they have their faults.
I'm doing better kasi I don't have kids, nakatapos ako, at comparing with my parents, talagang they had nothing. Hindi pa rin naman ako mayaman pero I have extra money now na hindi na lang for survival.