Everyone belongs somewhere.  High class, middle class, lower class, and everywhere in between is riddled with people.  People are separated into classes based on how they dress, what hobbies they have, and the attitudes with which they carry themselves.  Rarely do people change social class, probably because they are too comfortable in the class with which they are familiar.  So often, people's social class is determined by the neighborhood, home, and family they grew up in.

Families have the greatest impact on what social class their children will wind up in.   The social class of the parents usually determines the social class of the child, and the parents' social class is determined by culture as well as how much money they make.  When a family makes a lot of money and can buy nicer things, suddenly that family can live in the quieter, friendlier neighborhood.  Likewise, when a family makes a smaller income they are forced to live in a smaller, less comfortable home in the, stereotypically, dirtier, run-down, ghetto neighborhoods.  The culture then labels that family a certain way, even if that label is incorrect.  The worst part is that so often, even when good parents with lower incomes try to help their children live better lives than they did, their children tend to wind up in the same situation as the parents.  On the other hand, sometimes children will wind up like their parents simply because parents were either too lazy or apathetic to try and improve their situation.  Children emulate their parents, and so parents have the responsibility to try and become what they want their children to be.  That is not always easy, nor does it mean parents have to be millionaires to be successful and raise children that will live better than their parents did.  It simply means that parents owe it to their children to try; try and show their children the importance of striving to do and be their best.  When parents strive to be examples to their children, their children are more likely to improve their living situations when they are older.

Belonging to a certain social class does not make a person any better or any worse than anyone.  No one is better than anyone else.  However, problems do exist depending on what social class a person belongs to.  Studies show that people in middle to higher middle class tend to marry first and then have children.  People in this social stratosphere tend to have less divorces overall as well.  People in lower classes tend to have an increased amount of divorces, cohabitation rates, and children born out of wedlock.  Divorce, cohabitation, and out of wedlock births are huge contributing factors to the disintegration of the family.  When the family unit dissolves, society dissolves as well.  Other studies show that children born into family situations such as single parents homes, cohabiting couples, divorced parents, and so on are at a disadvantage compared to children born into nuclear, two parent families with a mother and father.  Furthermore, children born into families with such problems tend to perpetuate that culture; they are the ones that are more likely to divorce, cohabit, and have children out of wedlock.  Thus it is a parent's duty to strive to provide the best life for their children.

Overall, the social class a person belongs to can determine how his/her child will end up.  Even though it may not seem like it, money is a factor in potentially determining the future success or failure of children.