[frogpelt]

One simple change to the statement accounts for your observation:

    "Where you are in life is a result of choices you AND YOUR PARENTS have made in the past."

If by some remote chance there's a young person reading these comments and you are living in the slums, you have to start making better choices than your parents did (and their parents did) TODAY if you want your kids to have it better than you do.

Start with Walter Williams (Economics Professor at George Mason) advice on how to not be poor:

    1. Graduate from High School.
    2. Don't have children until you're married and stay married once you get married.
    3. Take any kind of job (except illegal ones).
    4. Stay out of jail.

Start there and move up as opportunities arise and it is almost guaranteed that your kids will do better than you (if you are currently in the slums.)