Robert D. Putnam describes the relationship between parents' social class and the fate of their children in the text Our Kids: The American Dream (2015). He writes: “Even ideal parenting cannot compensate for all the harmful effects of poverty on children, and even incompetent parenting cannot cancel out all the advantages conferred by parental wealth and education” (Putnam 2015: 134). . As a result, although Angela, the African-American single mother of three, is an "ideal" mother because she has good intentions and invests in her child's future, systemic class inequality fails her. does not allow you to make informed and impactful decisions. Thus, the disadvantages poor children face due to their parents' poverty are likely to be reproduced due to the deep-seated class inequality within their families.