The influence of parents' educational status on their children's future goals is an aspect that the writer has often been curious about and has reflected on. There has been some research on similar topics, which this article will review. While some of the research reviewed here is not directly related to this question, it is indirectly related and worth examining. Ermisch and Pronzato (2010) in a study conducted in Norway, established that parental education has an influence on a child's educational path. aspirations and achievements, but that the father's educational level had a greater influence on the children's future outcomes than the mother's educational level. However, this study showed that in poorer families, the mother's educational level had a greater influence on the child's future educational level. They also found that parental education level was more influential in the United States than in Norway, believing it to have a positive correlation in both countries. In Eccles and Davis-Kean's (2005) study on the influence of parents' education on their children's educational attainment, they found a correlation between parents' education level and their children's educational achievement, mainly through greater linguistic competence demonstrated by more educated parents. Children of more educated parents are more likely to perform better on standardized tests because of this language advantage. In a study on the influence of parents' expectations on their children's transition from high school (Davis-Kean, Vida & Eccles, 2001), it was found that parents' expectations regarding their children's future education were influenced by their level of education. Parents with a higher level of education...... middle of paper ......look at their parents' education level and their relationships with their parents to determine whether parental education was a factor predictive of academic success. They found that although maternal education was a motivating factor for children's academic performance, overall, parental education was not an important factor. Parent-child involvement and relationships were a more important indicator of success or failure. Parental expectations are also a factor in educational success, which is tangentially related to post-high school success. According to Goodman and Gregg (2010), even if parents have high expectations for their children, it is not guaranteed that they will succeed in higher education. Expectations are not sufficient to determine whether students will progress to higher education. When expectations are linked to parental involvement, higher education attainment is improved.