At first I thought not another disease; but it turns out Affluenza isn't a disease at all. It is being blamed for a 16 year old who drove intoxicated causing a crash that left four people dead back in June. Affluenza, which is not actually found in the DSM of Mental Disorders is known as what happens when a child or adolescent comes from a wealthy family and is never given any boundaries. The lack of boundaries allegedly leads to them breaking the law and getting away with it. These Affluenza sufferers have access to money and parents who can afford to bail them out and hire high priced lawyers to make sure they stay out of jail. The boy in this case will not have to do jail time, but he will serve 10 years probation and his parents have to find him a long-term treatment facility. Had this been a boy who was poverty stricken, there would have been no made up disease to get him off from jail time.
Society is designed to favor those who are wealthy. People who can buy their way out of anything can often times get away with murder. So how do you work on gaining wealth, while holding onto those fundamental principles that allows you to remain humble? How do you ensure that the generational wealth you are building for your offspring will allow them to build on that wealth instead of squandering it away foolishly?
If you have goals as big as mine, you want to secure a financially stable future for your family. I don't want my son to know the struggles that I did, but I want him to have that appreciation for our new life. I want to remind him that he is not entitled to anything just because I make a substantial amount of money, but I will make sure he does not want for anything in the process. Affluenza will not exist in this household!
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