Parents provide more than just moral teaching. For example, when kids screw up, wealthy parents can buy them second chances and the appearance of moral rectit

Parents provide more than just moral teaching. For example, when kids screw up, wealthy parents can buy them second chances and the appearance of moral rectitude — when in the same situation a poor kid would be ashcanned as a dissolute moral failure, whose parents didn't know how to budget, didn't pass on a strong will to persevere, etc.