Troubled

Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class by Rob Henderson, Gallery Books, 2024.

In this memoir of growing up in Northern California, often in Foster care, the author introduces the idea of luxury beliefs. It is an idea similar to virtue signaling. Holding certain beliefs has become a status symbol. It has replaced earlier status symbols such as luxury cars, expensive jewelry and servants. But when poor people adopt the luxury belief that a stable, traditional family structure is obsolete, they are harmed.