It doesn’t take money to spoil a kid.
Bad grades at school? Mom does your homework for you.
Neighbors broken window? Some other kid must done it because MINE n ever would.
Sent to the principal and given detention? Hey Buddy....let’s go skiing this weekend.
I watched in horror as this happened over the years to some middle-class white folks I know.
They kid now has multiple arrests and convictions, has spent probably 3 years in confinement, no diploma, no GED, no chance of rehabilitating.
And, he’s not even 21 yet
Same thing with a family friend’s son. He was allowed to do most anything he wanted, and escaped any blame or consequence due to his “condition”. He had been diagnosed with ADD so had cover to act any way he wanted.
There was about eight years of drugs, booze, stealing, assaults (he stabbed his mom because she told him he couldn’t stay in the house if he kept using drugs), car thefts, jail. He was living in a tent, which he had stolen from his friend, in whatever woods he was allowed. I talked to him often, and he would straighten up for a couple of weeks when I did. I spent money and time trying to find him a job and place to live.
Finally I guess he just couldn’t live with all the bad choices he had made. He stole his mom’s car and drove it, at about 90 mph, into a large light pole.