d and highly valued member of wider society, then this is likely to put us in a higher social class than some others e.g. a child who goes to a Private School, live in a large house and has parents who are "professional" people, is likely (but not certain) to feel that he/she has a greater chance of becoming generally respected than a child who is educated in an inner city, crowded school, and who lives in a Council Estate. (Tumin, 1967). For example from the Seven Up series, take John, a boy who attended an exclusive school in London for boys who at a very young age was aware of the opportunities in education that were available to him for example attending Oxford and wanting to be a lawyer are very high ambitions and then take Susan who attended a coeducational public school and lived in a housing estate and mentioned that she would work in woolworths, this is not generally a very high ambition. It can be said that the child have these ambtions because of the social background they have.
             Growing up in a poor family has multiple effects on children, both while young and later in life. Adolescents who have grown up poor are more likely to have poor self-esteem, to have low educational aspirations and to play truant. (Littlejohn, 1972). Later on, those who grow up poor are more likely to leave home early, to do
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