Abstract
This study focuses on the relationships between six measures of social inequality – parents’ occupational status, education, marital status and cultural background, neighbourhood quality and child's sex – and child and parent adjustment to the child's schooling. The sample comprised 305 9-11 year olds and their families living in 18 neighbourhoods (primary school districts) of Sydney. The outcome measures were: child's adjustment to school (as perceived by child and mother), parental aspirations and expectations, homework assistance available, parental satisfaction with school services and parental coping strategies for handling school-related problems. Cultural background, child's sex, school type (State/Catholic), local neighbourhood quality, marital status, and religion all predicted to particular adjustment patterns, over and above the effects of other predictor variables. In addition parents rated their children as doing better at school and liking school more than did the children themselves.
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