Parents, what are you doing to stop the cycle of stereotypes in your children?

Question by Just Little Old Me: Parents, what are you doing to stop the cycle of stereotypes in your children?
“Rich raise spoiled, rotten brats”
“Welfare families do not take care of their own in favor of substance abuse”
“Rich provide better educations for their children”
“Poorer families remain uneducated”
That is the short list, toss in ethnic background, sex, age, religion, etc.

Best answer:

Answer by Aloishus W
I’m keeping this one:
“Rich provide better educations for their children”

As for the spoiled rotten brats, that will be tough, but I’m so cheap I don’t expect my kids will feel like they are spoiled – they’ll probably feel deprived.

Answer by Jon H
Since all people will always have some sort of negative bias towards at least one group the best thing that I have found is to explain why people believe some things and why (in most cases, especially racism or homophobia) why such stereotypes are wrong. Some of your examples actually are statistically true however.

“Rich provide better educations for their children” – Many rich families put their children in private schools which have larger budgets per student and pay to have the best teachers. Also, because said schools are not unionized, it is easier to get rid of ineffective teachers.

Which leads me to:
“Rich raise spoiled, rotten brats” – Since people usually mix with people of similar means, many of the children of wealthy people have little, if any, experience with the lifestyle of less well off people. Some of them expect a level of treatment that comes off as spoiled or entitled to many people. (This is not statistically provable, however, I have found this to be the case in my own experiences as well as other peoples’ anecdotal experiences)

“Poorer families remain uneducated”- Since many poorer families cannot afford to send their children to college and sometimes rely on their children dropping out of high school to work in order to support their family, statistically the lower a family’s income, the lower chance that their children will graduate both high school and college.

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