Finally, the mother's social status, education, and her cultural background predetermine many child-caring practices. The child has a greater probability for healthy development if the mother does not yearn for another station in life. This observation holds true for the working mother as well as the housewife as long as either one considers her lot as the most appropriate one for her. The mother's over-all position on the socioeconomic scale seems to effect the child's development less than the extent for her education. It is the less-educated mother who uses inappropriate measures toward permissiveness and control. Conversely, more education and access to contemporary understanding of child care prepare mother for a more rational use of control and a greater permissiveness toward dependency. Sears implies that the commonly assumed socioeconomic class differences between persons do not exist. Differences are primarily related to the degree of access to the contemporary major matrix of communication, to current knowledge and to the application of such knowledge.