Many would argue that Americans are spending more on things they don't need than families did in the past. However, with an ever-increasing housing market and educational attainment increasingly important to a person's social class level, Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Warren Tyagi argue against this notion, arguing that families spend more just to provide a home with a safe and good quality neighborhood. school district to ensure a better future for their children. As they both say in Why Middle Class Mothers and Fathers are Going Broke, "For most middle-class parents, ensuring that their children get a decent education means one thing: seizing a home in the small subset of school districts that have managed to maintain a reputation for high quality and the trust of parents” (Warren 406). Because of this growing need for a good education, as the economy changes and causes housing prices to rise, parents must find new ways to create an income in order to support themselves. Warren and Tyagi would say this caused a “bidding war” and parents initiated the now-common concept of a second income; “By the early 1980s, women's labor force participation had become an important factor in determining whether a married couple could purchase a home” (Warren and Tyagi, 409). As noted previously, for middle-class families, this second family income constitutes the new common dynamic within social class rankings. Not everything is based on consumption, one could say that today parents would do anything to provide for their children, which makes families from lower social classes more difficult to live with because they cannot not afford to live in scarce housing communities with good schools that can provide a better future for their