Analysis Of Shameless

Sociology is everywhere. Even in a television series called, “Shameless.” This show is about a household of six children living in a bad neighborhood in Chicago’s South Side, growing up with minimum values. The Gallagher children have an alcoholic, drug abuser of a father, and a mother who split when the last kid was born. The oldest daughter Fiona, in her early twenties has raised the other five children since she her mother split years ago, and since their father went off the rail soon after. The kids being left to fend for themselves, must get jobs as soon as they can so they can help pay the bills and put food on the table for their family of six. At one point Fiona was juggling up to eight jobs, while the oldest two boys, Lip and Ian,
Today that’s not the case, the rates for divorce are extremely high compared to the past. In this show, you can see how the children may act out because they want both of their split, absent parent’s in their life. The three oldest Gallagher kids show a strong hate toward the parents because they are old enough to understand they were abandoned and left to fend for themselves. The younger kids don’t quit have the understanding of that and still crave the love and attention from their parents whenever they randomly come walking through the door. If the parents split when kids are at an older age they are able to comprehend what is going on, and I feel like you tend to see them acting out because it has a bigger effect on them, rather than someone’s parents splitting when they’re two years old and they have no comprehension on what is going on so they grow up with that being normal for them. At such a young age Fiona is was thrown into being a mom because she had no other choice than to take care of her siblings if they all wanted to survive. You see this a lot in lower-income families that have absent parents in their life. Not only did their mother leave them without a goodbye, but their father, Frank, lost his way into drugs and alcohol and had no job. This is seen in today’s world with absent parents causing the oldest to step up as leader of the house and take care of the family, whether they are unhappy or not. Or even with parents that are unable/ refuse to get a