Unfortunately, some people have made God out to be an egotistical narcissistic ogre whose main occupation is to find excuses to torture people forever. (religion.blogs.cnn.com)
The correlation with main occupation during childhood is probably high, though, but some studies indicate that men's and women's positions in the labor market change in conjunction with divorce and separation (see e.g., Evertsson 2001). (link.springer.com)
Second, the variable parental social class is based on information on both parents» main occupation during the respondent's childhood and we use the principle of dominance to determine which class position to use, the mother's or the father's, to define household class.2 According to Erikson (1984) the dominant class position influences, e.g., household consumption patterns, political preferences, and social status. (link.springer.com)