... available health care, also because they are in a higher income bracket the baby will have a better diet. The next step in a child's life involved education. Many studies have shown that children of working class backgrounds are less successful in school than those from middle and upper class homes. One important study has been Jackson and Marden's "Education and the Working Class", but many other sources also reveal that working class children start school with a disadvantage that is rarely overcome. This disadvantage has nothing to do with inherited intelligence, as children with working class parents who have been adopted into middle class homes at an early age achieve the same success as do middle class children, but has much to do with the home background. This, however, does not mean there is anything wrong with a working class background, many working class children have advantages over middle class ...

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