February 11, 2019 Kristof: A Reflection This article was interesting to me because the author made it clear that how much money a parent brings in can affect how successful a child can be. Kristof writes "parents' incomes correlate to their adult children's incomes roughly as heights do." And I could understand this because if the child grows up in a low income family, there will be certain stressors throughout their school years, which can effect their self efficacy, or what they believe they can achieve. Kristof gives the audience an example using a friend of his, a talented man, struggled from when he was born and had notable moments throughout his life. I understand the author's point of growing up from poverty can be extremely though, and favorable results aren't typical. To reflect on this and relate it to my life, I know I could very well possibly be seeing some signs of poverty in my internships, because of the free or reduced lunch pe...