What Is Sociobiography Essay

Socioautobiography: My life as a teenage Maya Wilkerson SOCI 1301 – Principles of sociology 10/10/2014 Lone Star College

Becoming a teen mom was more than a challenge in so many different ways, but surprisingly for me meeting my husband and having my children saved my life. Before I got pregnant I lived in a lower class environment with my mother, step farther and two little sisters. I grew up without knowing my biological father. There was violence and abuse (mentally, and physically) but we were known for the primary group of a perfect little church

We faced a lot of social change are norms were no longer there and we began with a routine of everyday adult chores. After my son turned one I found out I was pregnant again. We were already lower class with really nothing but one minimum wedge job living at my grandparents in their garage. Another kid would put us even lower in the socio- economic ladder. Even though we were happy we were not prepared by any means. My daughter was born April 24, 2010 with no complications. We knew our economic status would never be where we wanted it if we didn’t further our education. Between two kids and trying to get our own place our social roles put education on the back burner. My social role was primarily a stay at home mother I spent my day caring for my children and taking care of household chores I hated that I fell into the cauterizing gender label of just a stay home mother. As for my husband his social role was the primarily bread winner and was the leader of the house. We finally got our own place and I graduated from high school doing home schooling in 2014 and right away started college this was my achieved status. Things still aren’t easier by any means but at the end of