Sandy's Case Study

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Again, Sandy lived in a small urban community in Warren, MI were all the neighbors knew each other and had a sense of pride about their homes. It was a middle class neighborhood where all the fathers/husbands went and worked and the woman stayed home and raised the children and took care of the household. They were middle class because everyone worked for everything they had. Her father Jerry, would woke up at 4am to start his first job delivering milk and from then on he went to his job working at General Motors, where he worked his up to a supervisor position. Many times during the summer months Sandy’s father would have herself and her siblings go on the milk deliveries with him, she credits her father for influencing her strong work ethic.

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