My socioeconomic status growing up would be consider lower class. My mother and step-father struggled to keep a roof on top of our head until we were teenagers. We didn’t receive financial help from the government because both of the adults in the household had full time jobs. Even with two incomes, the debt the both had accumulated over the years was getting the best of them, it didn’t help that my step-father had a gambling problem. We owned our home and land, despite that, our trailer wasn’t up to code. For over five years we didn’t have running water, heat or stable floors. Having no water in the household was never an issue, after my family moved I explained to my closest friends the conditions I was living in and they told me that they
