Robert D. Putnam describes the relationship between parents' social class and their children's outcomes in Our Kids: The American Dream (2015). He writes: “Even ideal parenting cannot offset all the negative effects of poverty on children, and even incompetent parenting cannot undo all the benefits conferred by parental well-being and education” (Putnam 2015: 134). As a result, although Angela, the African American single mother of three, is an “ideal” parent because she has good intentions and is invested in her child's future, systemic class inequality does not allow her to make informed, impactful decisions. Therefore, the disadvantages faced by poor children due to their parents' poverty are likely to be reproduced due to their parents' deeply entrenched class inequality.