If their family is poor they will be poor and also would be more likely to be poor later on as they don’t have a good enough education to get higher status work, they will get lower educational outcomes because of things like material deprivation meaning a lack of learning resources and it might be hard to revise at home because of a bad learning environment e.g: no heating. - it is the norm for young children as that is what they have grown up with and what they are used to so they may not see or know any other way to live - can be difficult to get out of the cycle