This past week we have been talking a lot, in this class and in others, about if the experiences you have shape the person you are. Does your family having money help or hurt you? Can we really understand each others family experiences?
What is the purpose of family? To support, to accept and love unconditionally no matter what, to help you learn and grow and become a wonderful person. I feel we have a family to help us accomplish all of these things individually. As we grow we can become more loving and accepting of each other or we can take the opposite road, all depending on how we are raised and if we put our social class above the family.
In my opinion, I feel that money is a necessity, we need to to have a roof over our heads, to provide us with nourishment, to pay our bills and to help us accomplish many things in our lives, but is there a point where we can have to much money? I definitely feel like there is. I feel like when you have to much money it can effect the family structure and cause problems within the family. It can turn from, what can I do for you to what do I want. A child raised in a family that has a big house, with nice cars, always gets what they want will turn out differently than a child who was raised poor and has had to work to obtain money to live. As a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints I feel that it all comes down to principles. How you raise your child based on those principles, rich or poor, can determine how your children turn out. I was raised in a middle class family I feel like, and we had a nice house and good cars and extra money to do things with, but  we weren't really rich. Plus, I had a wonderful mother who taught me the difference between right and wrong and who also taught me a good work ethic, that I needed to work if I wanted money to spend. I had it pretty easy, but she raised me righteously and taught me correct principles and let me govern myself. I am grateful for a wonderful mother and for her righteous influence. I feel like throughout the years my family has been from to bottom to the top and have been through a little of everything and I think that is what has shaped us to be the people we are today.