Ran Tao

“The stay-at-home mother/breadwinning father model is based on the idea that the parent with less workforce experience—and, sometimes, less education, too—spends more time with their children than the parent whose job and education provides them with more academic skills and institutional knowledge. The resources that the family holds then are not passed down to the child, as the parent whose resources are typical of the upper-middle-class does not spend substantial time with the child, while the parent with resources more typical of the working-class does more to raise the child.”
― Jessi Streib, Privilege Lost: Who Leaves the Upper Middle Class and How They Fall

“Americans tend to celebrate upward mobility, bemoan class reproduction, and, up to now, ignore downward mobility.”
― Jessi Streib, Privilege Lost: Who Leaves the Upper Middle Class and How They Fall

“most college-educated men who married in the 2000s married college-educated women.36”
― Jessi Streib, Privilege Lost: Who Leaves the Upper Middle Class and How They Fall

“Starting in the 1920s, elite universities began admitting students based on their artistic and athletic talents. These criteria initially provided colleges with mechanisms to discriminate against Jews, whose academic performance qualified them for admission.16 However, after adding artistic and athletic talents to the admissions criteria, they took on a life of their own.”
― Jessi Streib, Privilege Lost: Who Leaves the Upper Middle Class and How They Fall