Personal Narrative Essay: The Myth Of The Model Family

At a young age, I’ve always had this idea of what the Model family should look like. Father is working while Mother cleans the house and cooks three meals a day. Brother and sister helping with homework at the dinner table, while Max the dog is digging a hole to bury his new bone. Well to some that might sound really lame. I do sometimes wish I grew up in a different era where everyone had that kind of family. My home life wasn’t always great growing up, my father and mother had a nasty separation and always talked bad about each other in front of me. I was a child I expected more from my parents, even when I grew up. There were often times when I would go out with my mom and sisters to a simple place like McDonalds, and I would see this family …show more content…
I’m not saying people shouldn’t be happy with their lives it’s just that why would you want to be perfect? A family is supposed to be a family, even if you only have one parent who struggles to take on both roles as mother and father or unwed couples shouldn’t have premarital sex and have children, or that gay marriage should or shouldn’t be against the law. If you do any of these things you’re the outcast of the community, because it wasn’t the ideal thing just because of the Model family. If you ask me, I’m glad my family isn’t like the model family, of course we fuss, fight and I might not see my parents when I want to; but in some dysfunctional way we are a family. The social world has become such an ugly place, people judge other people when it isn’t their place to judge. The Model family was just as bad, to me it makes me feel like it if you do have the model family you look down on others who aren’t a fortunate as other families. Who are you to say that something is wrong with the little boy that’s in foster care, maybe his only family is the foster family, they make it work because their ideal of a Model family may be just that, taken broken kids in and making them whole again. Now that I’m older I have my model family and blessed because our lives are out of