My Family Composition Essay

Family Composition: My family is composed of five people. In my family the only one who works and provides for us is my mother because my father got injured. After his injury he wasn’t able to work anymore. My mother’s name is Irma, my father’s name is Sergio and they are both in their 50’s. My sister’s name is Gaby and she is 23, my brother’s name is Junior and he is 11. Both my sister and I are in college and my brother is still in elementary. In conclusion, we are a small family. On the other hand, my mother’s family composition was old school. My mother told me that things were different back then. My mother was born and rises in México with 8 siblings, three females; including herself and four males. The names of her siblings were Luis, …show more content…
The only one who works is my mom; she works at Sun Maid. Her income is about $400-600 a week and about 30,000 a year. I would say that we are slightly on the middle class. We have a house, good cars, and everything even though we don’t live in fully luxury, we still have everything possible and it is all easy to get. My family social class is pretty stable but for my mom and my aunt it was good but sometimes hard for them to get through. Both my mother and my aunt Mali told me that none of their parents went to school so the only way to make it through living was working. My aunt said, “Even though my parents didn’t have an education I can say that we were decent living.” “We had food in our table, even if it was just beans and tortillas; we were able to afford medicines and good clothing.” My mother agreed and added on, “Yeah, we were all well-dressed.” They both explained to me that their father’s occupation was a milkman. He would make like about $2,000 to maybe $3,000 pesos per week and that was enough. My mother and aunt Mali explained to me that they all had to work because they weren’t able to afford school. My mother remembers that my grandpa was always carful with his money spending and only dedicated it all to them. He would work for hours and sometimes he wouldn’t eat because he needed to keep his family stable. In conclusion, …show more content…
She said it didn’t matter if you were older than your brothers; males still ruled and had major authority. For example, my mom and aunt both said that female’s opinions didn’t matter; females were supposed to be doing house wife stuff. They explained to me that all of my uncles were free to do whatever they wanted and that my aunts and my mom always had rules. My mother said, “All your uncles had the authority to go to school while we girls did too but our limits were pushed down because we needed to help out especially me because they believed that the oldest child had to be like a second mom.” Both my mom and aunt Mali remember that they would cry to their mom to let them go out because my grandparents were really strict on them. Overall I can see that a sex role was a huge part of my mom and aunt’s