All grown up now, i too, feel so grateful that i was not made privy of how bad our financial problems were or are. I was shielded from so much. Had i made aware of the details, it would have been all the more burdensome for me.

Yes, every family faces the same face and the fact is we don’t know it as our parents provide us with what we want. 
We are given everything in life and never told the financial problems. That’s the struggle of our parents.