Growing up in a Midwestern middle-class family, I was unaware of the economic realities outside of my world. Obviously, my parents worked hard to put a meal on the table and earn a living. My father taught me the value of saving up for a rainy day, and as I got older, explained to me about retirement funds such as the 401k. Often, I would watch new stories of extreme poverty in other parts of the world and was baffled why people, who were so poor, would have large families. After all, feeding all those mouths was costly and if you had little, how could you take the risk of having so…