October 7-11th Class, Culture and the family structure

This week we discussed how the economic class and culture that your family is living in affects your family.

    We discussed that some people who are considered to be in a lower class bracket by the amount of money they make often has a huge affect the rest of the aspects of their family. Typically, the parents are working so they don't have much time to teach and influence their children and the children tend to take care of each other or start working to help the other family members.  Then we discussed the people who are considered in the higher status of class. The interesting thing was that these children in the family don't typically spend much time with their parents either because they have nannies to watch them or their parents are away much of the time. The socio-economic status of your family could effect how your family is treated based only on money. But a person is so much more than the amount of money that they make. Some higher class families could spend all their time with their children because they don't have to worry about working to provide for the children.

    Culture can also affect the way your family functions. We discussed the ways that families are run in different parts of the world. Some families have the fathers work outside the home and the mothers stay because that is what is socially acceptable. Other families only have one parent and grow up completely without the other parent in their lives.

How have you noticed that your family is affected by culture or social class?