The more prosperous members of the middle class might have a vacation home, many televisions and electronic gadgets, motor boats or even airplanes. Members of the lower middle class would live in simpler homes in working class neighborhoods, but the homes are kept clean and paid for. Families Are Changing. Of course, these are stereotypes. Since more than half of American marriages end in divorce, single parent homes are now easy to find.
People often live together without being married.
Divorced people also remarry and mix children of previous marriages to form rather large households. All these living arrangements are becoming acceptable to the vast American middle class. The Role of Women. In days, past middle class wives rarely worked outside of the house. The earnings gap between the genders is closing, however.