Introduction As parents, we constantly strive to support our children’s education, hoping to give them the tools they need to succeed. One area of growing

People with lower qualifications have neither vocational training nor a high school diploma but only a lower or intermediate secondary school certificate. In 2022, 17% of people aged 25-64 in Germany fell into this category. Children of parents with lower qualifications often had similar low qualifications (40%). This rate drops significantly if parents had higher qualifications: only 7% of children of parents with vocational or high school diplomas and 3% of children of parents with university degrees were low-qualified.