User blog comment:Rai-Knightshade/Meta Time/@comment-26958589-20160310070957/@comment-25954732-20160310123546

Actually, wasn't Cinderella's dad a merchant in the fairy tale? Or am I thinking of the Grimms version...? (Edit: Even so, the Perrault version also mentions "fine rooms". It was more Cinderella herself that was 'poor' due to being mistreated by the more abusive members of her family.)

Anyway..

Yeah, it definitely would make more sense, but I suppose they were initially absorbed in marketing the basic characters most children would know off the bat. See, canon has so many loopholes that the theories people apply to it are all so interesting, though I personally don't subscribe to any of them. I just believe that "the story must go on" because there would be no point to the show without it.