Does our families background effect our success as an adult in society?

A child learns by copying, so in the majority of cases, the children will copy the parents. One of the main influences of a parent is in their attitude: their attitude to every aspect of life, including successes, problems, tragedies, personal relationships, work, leisure and education. All of these will affect a child's attitude to schooling and later to work. While not necessarily associated with "rich" or "poor" it is more likely to see a stronger influence towards a solid education, further education and "better" careers in the "rich" families. Children from the poorer families often struggle with education, often having a bad attitude towards work and are found more in the labouring fields of work. There are exceptions to any rules, of course. I personally know of a mother who had little education herself, but instilled a love of books and learning into her children and gave them a strong work ethic. On the other hand, the newspapers are full of "rich kids" and their anti-social behaviour. Did their parents miss out on instilling good attitudes in them? Maybe. I partly agree with your last statement: "We can all choose what we want to become." In the average person, I think this is true, in as much as our attitude will determine out altitude. Good discussion. Thanks.

I believe that everyone has the potential/capability to be succesful i.e all 6500 million people can become succesful if they choose to. However, in 90% of the cases, people don't rise above their family background. Your family background influences your sucess level, but does not determine you. Say there are two people, one from a rich family and the other from a poor family. Let us assume both work 7 hours a day. In such a case, the rich person is always going to be more succesful than the poor person. If the poor person wants to be as succesful as the rich person, he must work harder,say 10 hours.

Yes. Family background does play an impact to adults in society. Kids from Class A & B have more advantages for them to be on top. Kids from Class C has to excel more effort to be on top. And it always has to start from the parents. If kids see that their parents are very diligent and hardworking, i dont see them imitating their parents as well. It is true that we will become who we want to be, we only have to be persevering and patient.

basically everyone has a chance to become wealthy. but kids in wealthy families a better start than others in poorer families. it takes a longer time for a poor kid to get rich than a rich one. it is not true that poor will stay poor or vise versa.

Of course. Family background has a great impact in the effect of our success as an adult in the society. If the family is irresponsible most likely the people growing with this kind of family is also irresponsible or vice versa. There are a lot of people in our community which belong to low class family, but later on in life they became mature and responsible. This sense I think is much clear on how family can greatly affect the success of a person as an adult in the society.

It take significant effort to want to advance. Those from lower classes who do not receive the practical intelligence and social skills at home must look elsewhere for the education. This generally means recognizing that their own family is inadequate in preparing them for a middle class lifestyle. Generally once someone is old enough to have this much self awareness they are too far gone and will continue to mimic their home environment. It's certainly possible but their need to be positive role models available at an early age. I was raised in the lower middle class (large and close knit) family. Out of 7 cousins, 6 of us have done as good as or better than our parents. The other one is white trash, and that's on a good day. Her kids (all 5 soon to be 6 of them), despite being surrounded by successful lower middle class family members and a handful of solidly middle-moving to upper-middle class family are going in her direction. They have followed her example of laziness and a distinct lack of work-ethic. It would be nice to expect it to be easy to rise but the lack of direct parental motivation, supervision and expectations has caused these kids to fail.

We can choose to a certain extent. That being said, lots of literature shows that social class tends to reproduce social class in the next generation. This is due to social capital. Some can change their status, but not everyone. If you have a wealthier family, you tend to be able to go to better schools, and have more opportunities for success than those from a poor family. This is the idea of "cultural capital."

Social and monetary gaps/barriers are almost always an issue in one's success... and depending on WHERE you live, these things may be the only thing that actually allows one to be successful. Where I live, one's monetary and property value is what gets a person everywhere. Intelligence doesn't matter for much. I was raised in a middle class home, attended college, and I actually make FAAAR less money than my sister and brother. Neither have attended college, neither has finished high school. Granted, they make hourly pay, but my brother makes in excess of $20/hour, in a non-hazardous job. However, I am faaaaaaar more content in my life than the two of them put together are. Why does society seem to cap up success on the education we have, the job we have, and the material things we own? Does one's happiness count for nothing...?

In my own opinion, i think it depends on your current status as well. Family background could be effecting but it's not the only one reason for being success in our society. Although if you only have poor family, but if you have a good luck and willingness to work hard, you can possibly being success by your own hands. For everything, there's always a first mover. The same thing also happened on family life. If you only have poor or middle class family, but you want to be on a higher class, then you must make the effort for yourself. Become the first mover on your own family would be the only one way you can do. If it's not you, then who else? So, no matter what is your current family's background, there's nothing is fixed because life is dynamically changes, so everything can be set by your own efforts. Good luck for you. Have a nice day and happy mylotting.

I would definitely say that our family background does affect our success as an adult in the society. This is because as a child, we build our base & learn from our surroundings & society. A child learns everything from his family as his family is his first school. If a family have a negative background, the child will also develop a negative mentality. Hence family background matters Happy Lotting

Our family background helps us in giving us plenty of opportunities and a great chance for us to make a beginning.You can see that a person with no background needs to work hard to for many years to get to a position whereas a person from wealthy background starts directly from a good position but later on its his talent and skill that he is to depend on and build his position.If he is as talented as his ancestors he would be prosperous otherwise he would come down....

hey there. Whatever people say it is true that money rules the world. It can buy the children a better education, can buy them into the best universities and therefore help to determine the path they take. I do believe people can choose what they would like to do but money certainly opens a lot of doors and can help rich kids on their way. I imagine that rich kids look at their parents and see more possibilites, they are exposed to the wealth and will most likely continue in their lives with that money.

It does affect somehow because as a child, we imitate our parents, thinking that what they were doing were all good. Parents also teach their kids manners and good things needed that they have experienced so they know it better than anyone else. Rich kids can be sent to the best schools and have the good education, meaning a good opportunity in the future whereas the poor kids need to work hard in order to be in the high positions of society. But then, this is not entirely true because there are poor kids who did great things for them to be rich because they have more determination and perseverance to achieve the things they want so they can share it with their children.

This is a yes and no answer. In some ways our family status or financial well being does play a roll in how we turn out. There are opportunities that the wealthy & middle class have that, sadly to say, the poor doesn't. Schooling is one- when you have money education is not an issue- the kids don't have to work as hard to get into a top university because they have the money to get them in. Usually the parents are connected and can help get them jobs at top companies. But sometimes it is a mind set-- for the poor they have to work harder but it is not impossible to pull yourself and your family out from where you are. Study hard, make good grades, and you can be accepted into a great university- and not have to pay for it. Work hard, study hard, and you can land a great job at a top company. There are ways out of where your family has been. It does take a lot of work.

well growing up kids will most likey follow in the step of thier parents, and if they are in lower class then there is a good chance so will they unless they refuse to be the same way