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.
-According to Lareau, previous research on the consequences of class-based child-rearing practices has been limited by its:
A) Failure to distinguish between class groups
B) Too broad-based a focus
C) Too narrow a focus
D) Failure to incorporate relevant literatures into their studies.

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Lareau argues that previous research on class-based child-rearing practices has been limited by its too narrow focus, specifically its lack of consideration of how class-based differences in child-rearing practices contribute to larger patterns of social inequality.