well the thing is regardless of his poverty level the MC's father is connected to organized crime members (think things like the mafia) and once you get to a certain point you would find out he was even using these connections to threaten his own parents to keep them away from the MC....
but hey your choice if you want to hate a woman for fearing her violent criminal ex that threatened her life and the life of her son and then fearing the hatred of her son she was forced to abandon