Changing American Families

Judy Root Aulette wrote Changing American Families. This book talks about the different classes that compromise the US, and what those classes do for many of the people that are in them. This book I thought was very intriqueing because I was able to see the different views of the different classes in her writing. Though I thought the most intriqueing part of the book was talking about the African American families in the poverty classes, I did want to talk about one thing that I have learned this semester and that is once you are rich it is easy to stay rich, but once you are poor its easy to stay poor. I think this is because of how people shape their lives and roles in their classes. People who are rich will do almost anything to stay rich and stay in their upper class, while people who are poor find it a comfortable way of life and that is what they know. I feel that if people really look outside of the box of modern society and really see what makes families happy, and what one person could do they could change the world, but most people take the easy road and stay in those classes.

I thought the poverty society was very intriqueing because of the way that they networked together to help each other out. If everybody would do that then there wouldn't be any poverty. I also thought it was interesting the way that they weren't stingy with what they had as you would think that would be the case, but everybody needed help so everybody helped.