From Unequal Childhoods by Annette Lareau

Essay

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.
-Characterize the class-based "concerted development" child-rearing pattern.