The Missing Class

The Missing Class In the book “The Missing Class” by Katherine S. Newman and Victor Tan Chen. The authors have talked about the missing class, which is not the middle class but near poor. The authors describe exactly how the missing class families live in the real life. This book tells the readers about nine missing class families living beside their problems such as: kids, the relationship problem, and working time problem. The first problem of most missing class families is their kids. In the fact, the missing class kids will have poor education from their parents, because their parents spend lots of time for their work to make money for their family. So they don’t have time for their kids. The kid won’t have any lessons from their parents to know what is right and what is wrong. In other hand, the environment where you live also affects to the kids, if you live in a terrible environment with bad neighborhoods, violence, drugs; the kids will be bad. Those are the reasons that lots of the missing class kids become gang bangers, fall under the influence, or have trouble with law. For example in the book about Guerra Family: Omar Guerra, who is Tamar Guerra’s first child. He drop of school and go to the jail because of sexual assault. That is a big problem for Guerra family. The second problem is the missing class spends lots of time for their work and don’t even have much time for their family. In the book, the authors talk about Tomas Linares, who is in missing class, has to work seven days a week at two jobs. Tomas has a daughter named Yula, who seems to take the role of the hell-raiser of their family; she stay out late at night, cut classes, drank, and hung out with too many boys. This is probably because Tomas does not spend enough time with his daughter because he works too many hours, therefore he can’t teach his daughter what is right and what is wrong. This issue can relate to many people in the U.S today