Essay On Family And Social Class

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Families and Social Classes Have you suffer and feel disappointment in your life? Who is willing to support to you without any reason when you fail for doing something? The answer is your family. Usually, family members can tolerate our mistakes and help us to solve our personal problems. Many people believe that having a family is happiness and they don’t need to be alone and support with each other. The family life is a very important to discuss because our attitude on the family value may effect to our views toward the world. In the article “ The Color of Families Ties: Race, Class, Gender,and Extended Family Involvement”, Gerstel and Sarkisian argued that that the social class did not make the poor family had weaker ties and the relationship …show more content…

Actually, there were lots of conflicts would occur in a family because each person had his or her own opinion and perception. One of the problems was the financial problem. In the section called “Explaining race differences : is it culture or class? ”, Naomi and Natalia mentioned that “Because Blacks and Latinos/as typically have less income and education than whites, they come to rely more on their relatives for daily needs such as child care, household tasks, or rides.” (51) There is both positive and negative effects for the poor family. Because they did not receive Unlike White, Blacks and Latinos families were poor because they came from other countries. Most of them had low education and they could not find a job with a higher salary to keep their life as White people. They choose to live with their kins because they believe that extended family must support to each other in their tradition. Women must take care of their children and they did not have the opportunities to earn an education. Because they could not find a job, poor family needs to get support from their kins.Since women do not receive any income, they still believe that they are useful..Many families start conflicts when they discuss the housework and children care.Giving a daily for the house is a way to deal the conflict among the family members However, the …show more content…

There are a lot of things will effect to the relationship between family members. A most popular problem is the financial problem. Many people will start a conflict if they want to use the money to satisfy their own desire. For example, a family has less extra money to do anything they want. The father wants to buy a new car. The mother wants to save money in the bank. The brother wants to buy a new video games and cell-phone. The little sister wants to buy a puppy. They have the argument when they are trying to make a decision. Also, the poor families have different problems and they don’t have enough money to satisfy all people 's need. Finally, the conflict will solve if all people have the same goal. Therefore, the minority poor will have a strong tie with their family if they have the same goal to reach

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