Child’s status dependent on ‘class’ of grandparents

A child’s eventual position in Britain’s social class system is directly affected by their grandparents’ class, according to new research.

Academics from the universities of Oxford and Durham found that the odds of children landing professional or managerial roles are at least two and a half times higher if their grandparents were professionals or managers.

After looking at surveys of over 17,000 Britons born in 1946, 1958 and 1970, researchers discovered that the link between the class of grandparents and grandchildren could be observed in families both going up and down the social ladder.