View Poll Results: what household income bracket did you grow up in?

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  • lower class

    16 15.24%
  • lower middle class

    21 20.00%
  • middle class

    35 33.33%
  • upper middle class

    30 28.57%
  • upper class

    3 2.86%
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Thread: sex workers, did you grow up in a poor, middle, or rich household?

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    Default Re: sex workers, did you grow up in a poor, middle, or rich household?

    Quote Originally Posted by tabithacooks View Post
    Interesting how divorce and single parenting can change an economic status from doing well to waiting in the welfare line.
    This is why it's so important for women to be able to support themselves. I see so many women here and in real life saying they will be stay at home moms, but I always tell them to have a backup plan. Many of the mothers mentioned are probably from the era where women often didn't have skills because they never learned any, then found themselves divorced. To be honest when women decide to be stay at home moms they are taking a huge gamble because it could backfire.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kellydancer View Post
    This is why it's so important for women to be able to support themselves. I see so many women here and in real life saying they will be stay at home moms, but I always tell them to have a backup plan. Many of the mothers mentioned are probably from the era where women often didn't have skills because they never learned any, then found themselves divorced. To be honest when women decide to be stay at home moms they are taking a huge gamble because it could backfire.
    yes, yes, and more yes!!!!! there is abs nothing wrong w/ making your own money and educating yourself so that you do not fall victim to changes that affect your lifestyle. it doesn't mean you do not have faith in the other person/rel. it is just good common sense
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    i prefer the term "working class" or "working poor" more specifically. which is how i grew up. my dad worked usually 2 jobs, pest control or labor and some odd job like pizza delivery. i remember him coming home with groceries after selling plasma and blood to get them. he was very proud and did not want to get on welfare which would've saved my mom a ton of stress. she worked odd jobs but because of our strict religion was told to stay home.

    we moved every few months living with family, in friends basements, shitty apartments and trailors and once they put my sisters and i in foster care while they lived in a car. But always made sure to visit daily until we were back together

    we didn't have money but my parents were very loving and i never felt neglected. my mom slowly took college courses and now is working on her masters so she has moved to middle class but i've been on my own for years

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    Default Re: sex workers, did you grow up in a poor, middle, or rich household?

    Quote Originally Posted by obscurity View Post
    yes, yes, and more yes!!!!! there is abs nothing wrong w/ making your own money and educating yourself so that you do not fall victim to changes that affect your lifestyle. it doesn't mean you do not have faith in the other person/rel. it is just good common sense
    Exactly. It's a way for a woman to never have to depend on a man for her money. Way too many women marry just for support and find themselves miserable.

    Lady Lazarus, were your parents by any chance fundamentalists? I have a friend who is one and they really stress the idea that women give up their career to stay at home. They even have womens classes to show them how to be "proper" women.

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    Default Re: sex workers, did you grow up in a poor, middle, or rich household?

    Notice there is a pattern with some of the people who had it rough growing up - the pervasiveness of religion. That is all, no blame or jugement assigned to anyone, but if these churches really cared for their flock, they wouldn't let families give away every last penny to them.

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    Default Re: sex workers, did you grow up in a poor, middle, or rich household?

    Quote Originally Posted by _natasha View Post
    Think this is a bit different to the uk 'classification' of class... By how everyone else is describing the 'boundaries' I'd say upper class now... That definitely wouldn't wash in the UK. I grew up very comfortably - got bought a pony as a young child, that turned into five and I competed nationally in almost everything 'equestrian' I could, without sponsorship. My university fees are paid fully on my completion by my parents. I study law. I went (and still go) to school with Lords.

    My parents split up and now my dad is loaded and my mum has nothing. Money doesn't make you happy - although I am a very happy sex worker.
    Yes that's rich to me! lol. I bought my own horse when i was 25. No way could we afford that when i was a kid. I also got the full loan for university. I don;t really know where to put my family. I always thought we were middle class, but now i think lower middle. I never wanted for anything (except a pony!), but i was an only child so perhaps things would have been different had there been siblings. Again very UK based but I wore shell suits, went on holiday to butlins, played kirby in the street, and only owned 2 pairs of shoes growing up. 70% of our street was/ is council houses (my parents own theirs)

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    Upper middle class, private catholic schools. Never struggled per-say, but my little sister had a medical defect and my parents attention was always on her, and time was on her.. and most of the bills were medical bills to pay for her.. so I was pretty much "on my own" supervision wise. I think this is one of the reasons I gravitated to the adult industry... 1.) For the attention 2.) For the amazing money 3.) Because I genuinally find it exciting and fun, which is the most important part.
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    Default Re: sex workers, did you grow up in a poor, middle, or rich household?

    Quote Originally Posted by camille27 View Post
    upper middle class but maybe upper class. but my parents and i didn't get along so i left home early.

    More,more I swear we sound exactly similar....if that's possible? Lol but you get my drift
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    Default Re: sex workers, did you grow up in a poor, middle, or rich household?

    I selected middle but after comparing to others I'm thinking it was more of upper middle.I was adopted by my aunt and uncle at age 3. I consider them my parents and their children (my cousins) my siblings. I was a girlscout all the way up to the highest level (over 5 years) had 2 siblings,one in private school,me and the other went to public school but the ones you had to be accepted into like vocational schools. We always had 3 cars on average at times 4. Owned a two family house and upstairs and downstairs was both ours,so pretty big space. Went on a ton of vacations. Me and sister had a collection of over 600 barbie dolls (don't ask) not including barbie accessories. My aunt was a home care provider and had an at home child day care,which pays really well,my uncle owned his own cleaning company,so a janitor? He cleaned for a really big office building downtown,well his company did. My family was very religous and still gave money to the church. I was always comfortable actually above comfortable. I grew up like a Cosby kid basically. Ran away at 14 and again and for good at 17,resented the relationship I mainly had with my aunt. I was always treated like the "step-child" and got fed up.
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    Default Re: sex workers, did you grow up in a poor, middle, or rich household?

    My parents wavered back and forth between poor and middle-class throughout my childhood. My dad worked in construction but was limited due to his disability. It was often hard for him to find steady work. His primary focus was always on his music and he spent a lot of money on equipment, recording studio stuff, instruments, etc. My mom worked various retail and office jobs. She was always a hard worker and good with money even though she didn't have a lot of it.

    I had a happy childhood, but I did miss out on stuff other kids got to enjoy. We never went on vacations, we didn't get tons of Christmas or birthday gifts like others did, I was put in dance classes and my brother in karate but we had to be taken out after only a couple months because my parents couldn't afford it. Neither of us were given cell phones or cars, no college fund, and whenever I'd ask for money I'd be given a $5 bill (or nothing at all) as opposed to the $20s that other kids would get.

    When my parents divorced when I was 16, my mom quickly married a rich guy and now lives in a million-dollar home... but she's still just as stingy. lol. My dad's life went downhill very fast and the couple years I lived with him then were VERY meager... I'm talking, nothing but moldy bread and a can of beans in the cupboard kind of living. Fortunately he's a lot better off now, has a steady job teaching music and has also remarried.

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