Summary Of Our Kids: The American Dream In Crisis

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In chapter four of Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis, Robert Putnam describes a two-case scenario of two Mexican American families, that live in Orange County California, who have one thing in common; they want to have a better education. The first family introduced is Isabella's whose parents have worked very hard for all their children to have a better life and education. Clara Isabella mother with the rest of her siblings and mother immigrated to California because her father was working in the railroad. They lived in a poor area of South Central Los Angeles where they would often got chase by the African-Americans that lived in the same area as them. Clara's parents wanted their children to have a successful education to have better