Sentences with phrase «upper middle class family»

Born Roberto Antonia Sebastian Matta Echaurren in Santiago, Chile, to Basque parents, he grows up in an upper middle class family.

I come from an upper middle class family.

I had been raised in an upper middle class family in the Chicago suburbs and, for the most part, had a great childhood.

It's about a very bad Thanksgiving break for a couple upper middle class families in the 70s.

I don't understand how handing out private school vouchers to middle and upper middle class families will help the Milwaukee Public School system.

Private schooling and upper middle class families do tend to lead to better educated students.

Yes, sacrificing the have - nots by taking more educational dollars from already struggling public school Districts and sending them to upper class / upper middle class families who want to send their children to private schools.

Interestingly, middle and upper middle class families had an even higher ratio: of families between the 40th and 80th income percentiles, 56 % carried a credit card balance.

«You'd have to live closer together, maybe have similar incomes so you can offer the child similar housing... It's a situation really that would work better for middle to upper middle class families,» she says.

Not exact matches

Middle class families becoming upper income families....

I'm 13, live in an upper middle - class family, have good grades in school, and wan't to start planning out my future now.

«All families in my upper middle - class neighborhood regularly enjoy a living standard better than that achieved by John D. Rockefeller Sr. at the time of my birth.

Osberg grew up near Philadelphia in an upper - middle - class family of Italian immigrants.

Middle and upper class couples limit their families, oftentimes because BOTH parents have careers they don't want to be derailed from for too long.

At the other end of the spectrum, children in middle - to - upper - class families grow up knowing that college, work, and a strong family are all desirable and attainable.

My gay child has a strong father, a two parent household, a upper middle class income, both college graduates, went to church, had a supportive family life, engaged in sports, school activities and I think someone needs to teach you about what the real Jesus would have done.

His family instilled in him a certain upper - middle - class reserve.

Edward John Mostyn Bowlby was born in London to an upper - middle - class family.

I'll be honest I'm upper middle class but half my family and my best friend are working class.

That could cost some typical middle - class families and upper middle - class families with high property taxes a lot of money.

The flip side, according to this view, is that Clinton accentuated too many issues that appeal to a narrower band of upper - middle - class college - educated voters, women in particular — things like paid family leave and pay equity.

As Chingos said, the concessions to middle - class (and upper - class) families «raise the concern that the drift is in helping politically vocal middle - and - upper - middle - class families as opposed to doing more for lower - income families.»

However, Janet Bowers, a math education researcher at San Diego State University in California, notes that 70 % of the subjects came from middle - and upper - middle class families and questions whether the result can be generalized.

Black tie was a semi formal look acceptable for immediate family dinners, and upper middle - class men.

Likewise, it could be the other way round and you are the girl from an upper - middle - class family, while your man has a working class.

Perhaps surprisingly, SeekingArrangement said many of its student members do not, in fact, hail from low income families: 56 percent come from middle and upper - middle class families, while 20 percent are from high income families.

After her father's project reached completion, Nicole and her family returned to Australia.Raised in the upper - middle - class Sydney suburb of Longueville for the remainder of the 1970s and well into the eighties, Kidman grew up infused with a love of the arts, particularly dance and theatre.

Reed Between the Lines is instead a totemic analogy, bemoaning in sitcom form the lack of well - adjusted black families living in upper - middle - class splendor on network TV.

His link to the outside world is his upper - middle class bother Tony (Obba Babatunde), the only family member who's come to visit him in the half - decade he's been in jail.

Unfortunately, he decided to cram most of those narrative threads together in Wish I Was Here, a muddled comedy that feels more like a vanity project than a profound examination of upper - middle class family dynamics.

They come from different socioeconomic backgrounds, however, with Florence's family representing the upper middle class that looks down on people of Edward's more humble status.

The film's prologue touts the British village home to average middle class families, but it's quite clear the Miniver family are part of the modern upper class; with a substantial disposable income, a housemaid, and a cook, they also maintain British reserve to sometimes irrational, and rather precious degrees.

Hardly the hearty tale of maritime adventure that the title suggests, The Squid and the Whale is a coming - of - age drama that focuses on how the four members of an upper - middle - class New York family and how they react to the imminent divorce of the parents.

Wells treats his story like it's a set of bullet points about the perniciousness of stockholder - driven business decisions, never letting a single «the upper - middle class has it tough, too» or «our families are the real wealth» moment slip past him.

Her intention being to steer away from the «scruffy, slumpy and bumpy» style typically adopted by upper - middle class families during the period and create something of utmost couture instead.

Vera cleans the houses of several upper - middle - class families; at home, too, she's the cook and cleaner - upper.

The muse for the character of Danny (played by Manchester by the Sea's Lucas Hedges), a skinny kid with a good singing voice from an upper - middle - class Irish Catholic family, was Gerwig's high school boyfriend, Connor Mickiewicz, who remembers making out with her in the McKinley Park rose garden, inspiring a key scene in the movie.

In the film based on Amy Koppelman's 2008 novel, the Emmy - winning actress plays an upper - middle - class mother and wife who is destroying herself and her family in a losing battle with mental illness and addiction.

The film opens as the interracial couple are getting ready to travel up to her family home in a lily - white, upper - middle - class enclave.

It presents an inescapable scenario in which an upper middle - class family are tormented by two blood - thirsty young men (who are supposed to represent «us»).

THE DESERT BRIDE --(Chile / Argentina) Dir, Cecilia Atan, Valeria Pivato A middle - aged woman who works as a maid for an upper middle - class family in Buenos Aires goes back to her hometown of San Juan after decades away to visit her dying sister.

Sitcom follows the going - on in the home of a dysfunctional upper middle - class French family who no longer know how to communicate with one another.

Dad Bill (Michael Sheen) works to support the family and the upper - middle class life they have achieved.

The story follows the triumphs and travails of young Paddington (voiced by Ben Whishaw), a Peruvian bear who arrives in England and is quickly taken in, but only as a temporary stopgap, by an upper - middle - class family.

In the opening scene, an upper - middle - class family drives to their house in the country, heavy metal music sarcastically blasting on the soundtrack (not the family's car stereo, which plays bourgeois - appropriate classical), and even before the whore has gotten a chance to flash her jewels, Haneke is already slapping her on the wrist.

Moonrise Kingdom Year: 2012 Director: Wes Anderson At the time of making Moonrise Kingdom, after seven features, Wes Anderson became unmistakable: white, upper - middle - class dysfunctional families deadpan wry dialogue amid meticulous mise - en - scène to an eclectic soundtrack.

But many paternalistic programs remain controversial because they seek to change the lifestyles of the poor, immigrants, and minorities, rather than the lifestyles of middle - class and upper - class families.

Charters in Massachusetts would have been better positioned politically if they had not previously neglected to benefit more middle and upper - middle class families.

The power of middle - and upper - middle - class families to exercise control over how and what their children are taught is one example.

Test - based systems are politically doomed because middle - and upper - middle - class families tend to prevail in education politics.