Essay On Middle Class Family

Being born into a caucasian middle-class family was not something that I chose or had any power over. My life could be much different than it is now had my parents, or may I say birth parents, kept me. I do not like to use the phrase “given up” as my parent did not just give me away to some strange family, but I was put into a middle-class family so that I could live a “happy” life. My biological parents, more my mother, were not in the position to raise a baby. At the age of eighteen and living closer to the poverty level than the middle-class, they knew that they could not afford to raise me, both mentally and financially. Through my entire life, I have never had to worry about where our next meal is coming from, I have had never worried …show more content…
I was not being forced to go there, I was not forcing my parents to pay the extravagant tuition for six years, I never thought twice about getting a new homecoming dress every year, I never thought twice about being able to have the money to get a prom dress. I always had a lunch either packed or money to buy hot lunch, I never took the bus to school as my family either let me take one of our two cars or my parents dropped me off. The fact that I even ended up living in a stable middle-class family is a hidden privilege in itself. Until I met my biological parents for the first time in nineteen years, I never really thought twice about the life I live now. My birth mother is married now and has three boys. They live on her income alone as her husband was injured at work, they have a roof over their heads and they have what they need but money is something that they stress over. That could have been me in that family, I could be the child in a family that has to worry about money, and that is something that I have never had to experience. There are millions of families like that, living paycheck to paycheck and that is something that I have never really taken into consideration because of the class that I have grown up