A lot of folks think that the path from wealth to poverty is the kind of thing that has only ever happened when somebody won the lottery. And while it is true that some people have taken it in exactly that fashion, that is the single example of how a family can go from dirt poverty to a state of wealth within a very short time. In all of the other cases, when an entire family is poor, the physical reality of their poverty is not something which is likely to go away at all. In most cases, they have no Earthly clue about how to change it.
Going from being poor to being rich is actually the kind of thing that can be done within a couple of generations. The biggest thing that you have when you are poor is the mindset of being impoverished.This is the mindset which says that everything is about survival, and that there is never going to be enough of the good things in this world. The good things, unfortunately, may be taken away from you. It is very easy to take it as a serious stumbling point. Seeing wealth as a thing which you own is one of the first steps of the process.
From that point onward, it is merely about building assets which put money in your pocket. And once the money that pours out of your assets is substantially more than what you need to pay all of your bills, you have achieved a measure of wealth. Wealth is marked by having more than what you need, and in always thinking in terms of what you desire and how you can acquire what you want.