damn, that downward mobility one is depressing. something must be rotten in the culture if middle class kids aren't building on the small gains their parents worked so hard to achieve. other minority groups are building on the previous generation and we're falling behind our parents.
unless your parents are rich or even upper middle class, you should be doing better than them. that's the point of this, give our children a better life so that they can have advantages we didn't and build on that. maybe they find something appealing in the culture of poverty that they want a piece of that