Parenting in Privilege or Peril: How Social Ine. Bennett, Lutz, Jaya PB**

Teachers' College Press

Parenting in Privilege or PerilHow Social Inequality Enables or Derails the American Dream\nAuthor(s): Pamela R. Bennett, Amy Lutz, Lakshmi Jayaram\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Teachers' College Press, United States\nImprint: Teachers' College Press\nISBN-13: 9780807766019, 978-0807766019\nSynopsis\nIs the American dream that exists for the middle class equally available to the working class? Using extensive interviews with parents and a variety of data sources, this book examines how social contexts and culture affect parenting decisions. By analyzing class differences in neighborhoods, schools, and networks, as well as their relationship to mobility-related parenting practices, the authors demonstrate that cultural differences are no match for economic inequalities. They show how middle-class parents have access to social contexts characterized by security, which gives rise to what the authors call \""strategic parenting\"" a set of practices that allow adolescents to develop the q.