From Unequal Childhoods by Annette Lareau
Lareau explores the largely invisible but powerful ways that parents' social class impacts children's life experiences. Using in-depth interviews she documents that inequality permeates the fabric of culture across class lines. Differences in child-rearing practices across class lines is systematic, with middle-class children internalizing values that are more likely to produce a socioeconomic advantage as they move into adulthood and the labor force.
-working-class children derive more advantage than middle-class children from contact with key institutions such as the educational system.

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The statement is incorrect. According to Lareau, middle-class children internalize values that are more likely to produce a socioeconomic advantage as they move into adulthood and the labor force, while working-class children are less likely to have access to these advantages. However, working-class children may derive more advantage than middle-class children from their contact with institutions like the educational system, as they learn to navigate systems of authority more effectively.