The Relationship between Parents' Education Level, Family Economic Situation, and Expectations for Children's Education

Abstract

With the arrival of the knowledge economy era, education has been increasingly emphasized. Family education as an important part of education, by all sectors of society, has also attracted the attention of many scholars. Scholars have conducted a number of studies on various aspects of family education, existing research has explored the many influences on family education, but most of them focus on the interrelationships between the various factors, and seldom involves the comparison between the two groups of comparisons between related variables. The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between parents' educational attainment, family economic status and children's educational expectations. It also attempts to compare which of these two factors has a greater impact on children's educational expectations. By studying and analyzing the previous literature and using the method of empirical analysis, this paper concludes that family economic status and parents' education level have a significant effect on children's educational expectations. In addition, family economy has a relatively small effect on children's educational expectations compared to parents' education level.