Family Composition Essay

Composition: (who is considered family, who lived in the household, etc.) The composition of my family unit growing up was two older sisters and three older brothers and I am the baby of the family out of six children. Of course, my parents and the family dog a dachshund named Snoopy was also the family as well we never had many animals and when the dog got hurt and got put to sleep we never got another dog. The difference in age between my sisters and I are 16 and 15 years apart and they got married and started families of their own and the age difference between me and my oldest niece is only four years apart. In addition, my oldest sister played more of a mother role than a sister and my nieces and nephews were more like brothers and sisters growing up because they were closer in age. The age of my oldest sister is 69 Barb and she lives in Kentucky, next is Bev 68, then my oldest brother Don is 63 and my brother Jim is 59 and he lives in Florida, my brother John is 57, and I am 53. The family composition is we are rather close because four of us live near each other,

In addition, the hardships that my grandparents faced shows me that heritage and culture and who we are and where we come from plays a big part in our lives because the grandparents and the parents are the main people in our life and family members such as brothers and sisters and so on influence and help shape who we are early on in childhood. My grandmother immigrated to the United States with her parents and later met and married my grandfather, however, because my grandmother was full blooded German and spoke very little English she was shunned in many ways because the neighborhood they lived in was all Irish and the neighbors did not like Germans. My mother was one of nine children and my father also was one of nine children which is quite