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CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF STUDY The hope that parents hold for their children’s success in life is often first vetted through their children’s success in school. Indeed, doing well academically is related to doing well in life economically (Butler, Beach, & Winfree, 2008). Yet for many children, chances of academic success are diminished because of poverty (Ducan & Brooks-Gunn, 2000); family economic status is a strong predictor of ...

CHAPTER TWO LITERATURE REVIEW 2.1  THEORETICAL FRAME WORK This study is informed on the theory of concerted cultivation by lareuae, (2003). Lareau stated that lower income families have children who do not succeed to the level of the middle income children, who feel entitled, are argumentative, and better prepared for life. According to Suizo (2010) analysis of Lareau book, Unequal childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life, there is a clear ...