Interesting as always. I'd like to think her opinion on what parents want is correct, but i'd be shocked if it wasn't just her personal opinion based on a few parents of her acquaintance. It's much more likely that it entirely depends on the background of the parents themselves. Unlikely that a poor inner city single mother, with no experience whatsoever of the educational system other than being forced to attend herself until old enough to drop out, would consider any goal for her own child other than getting rich as quickly as possible in the only way she herself (or the biological father) understands, becoming famous on social media or being great in sports. Whereas a more middle class couple who both at least finished school and probably college for one or both would be more knowledgeable about the real world and put much more emphasis on a realistic goal for their child, for instance law or science/medicine as you mentioned.
Interesting as always. I'd like to think her opinion on what parents want is correct, but i'd be shocked if it wasn't just her personal opinion based on a few parents of her acquaintance. It's much more likely that it entirely depends on the background of the parents themselves. Unlikely that a poor inner city single mother, with no experience whatsoever of the educational system other than being forced to attend herself until old enough to drop out, would consider any goal for her own child other than getting rich as quickly as possible in the only way she herself (or the biological father) understands, becoming famous on social media or being great in sports. Whereas a more middle class couple who both at least finished school and probably college for one or both would be more knowledgeable about the real world and put much more emphasis on a realistic goal for their child, for instance law or science/medicine as you mentioned.