How Do Middle Class Families Affect Poor Families

Middle class families are also affected by the economic meltdown. When a husband or father loses his job it affect his identity and his sense of self-worth, they also feel a loss of authority and respect in the household. Trouble in the large economy is inflicting on well-being of children and families. The most problem the nation faces is the widespread joblessness that persists. The second problem is the extreme inequality that now set us apart, increase poverty rates, a shrinking middle class and a growing gulf between the very rich, the one percent and everyone else. The third major problem is economic insecurity. Economic insecurity was once the defining feature of middle class life it is no longer. In sun economic instability doesn’t affect poor families only it also affect negatively middle class parent as well but in a different ways that is why they have to fill for bankruptcy. …show more content…
But middle class families, who suddenly fell from grace for no fault of their own, blaming their plight on bad values and bad choices just doesn’t work.
• Concerned about their children futures in global, high tech economy these parents want their kids to go to schools where they can get solid education. That mean living in a suburb or neighborhood known for having good public schools, this remind me of Laureaux in her book ‘Unequal Childhood’ where the kids going to lower Richmond school education wasn’t adequate compare to swan school in the