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> Upper middle class families are more likely to value, encourage and afford personal computers for their kids.

Afford, sure. Value and encourage? I'd say they're more likely to demonize personal computers than to encourage them. My mom recently bought laptops for my little brother and sister, but she can't stand that they want to use them.

Among the middle class, computers for children have become yet another parenting moral panic: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2014/06/30



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