Personal Narrative Essay Sociology

Being an African American female that was raised by a single parent whom was my grandmother took on a role after realizing that my mother and father was to incompetent to take care of their kids due to drugs. My grandmother took on the responsibility of raising me and my two sisters in a middle class city on the eastside of Cleveland. Although it may seem like we were doing good because of the area we stayed in but being raised by a single parent was a bit of a challenge. I remember not having Christmas’s as well as having to get clothes from the goodwill; so seeing my friends and a few cousins that were raised in a two parent home or just having their mother and father in their lives I would envy them just because I would watch them get the
My grandmother could have allowed my sister and me to end up in the system but she didn’t. Our inequality of condition was definitely at the bottom of hierarchy, however I was not raised in a community where there was gangs or high crime. Our community was definitely a stable and safe community. When it comes to my inequality of opportunities far as education my grandmother did what she had to do to make sure that we were successful in school. Growing up in the area where we lived most of the kids attended public school people in our area couldn’t really afford to send their kids to private schools. At that time our schools were one of the best, I remember people from the inner city doing whatever they could to send their kids to our schools. However, being raised by a grandmother that only had a high school diploma and your parents that were High School dropouts, college was never a thought. My grandmother never really talked to my sisters and me about college. It took me to have my own kids to realize that college was going to provide me a quality of life. Not only that having friends that went to college helped motivate me to continue my education. With having parents that were high school dropouts it did effect one of my sisters to follow in the same footsteps. When it comes to health I would say that I was born into a family that was considered healthy. My sisters and I may not had the best health insurance just because our health insurance came from the state. I do however remember my grandmother staying on top of our dental appointments and our annual doctor visits. All in all my sisters and I may not had the best life like most people but I wouldn’t change it for nothing. My sisters and I could have been in foster care bouncing around from family to family in which we could have been neglected or we could have been