difficult time raising the child, and the quality of education and socioeconomic class will be
lower. Then, life choice depends on the social wellbeing of the family.
Life chance presents opportunities for each to help improve the quality of life. These
opportunities refer to the ability to acquire resources both intangible such as basic needs and
intangible such as healthcare and education. Then, the family’s social circumstances hugely

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impact on the course of life and life chance of an individual. Importantly, an individual has the
freedom to choose for their choice and free will, but the chance becomes limited due to social
status, social class, and political affiliation. The life chance approach does not necessarily
achieve, but it can be ascribed in that the chance is comparatively little and inherited. It implies
that individuals efficiently gain social position from the group or the family lineage. Also,
attributes qualities such as gender, class, and ethnicity might affect the life choice of an
individual. The reason is that all families or parent pass all they have either advantageous such as
wealthy or disadvantageous aspect such as poverty to their children.
The origin of a person determines the neighborhood they live in which affects the
educational attachments, individual to socialize with an identification of their class. One of the
factors that affect life chance is housing in that poor housing can affect personal health,
availability of facilities and most likely can lead a person to be a victim of crime due to poverty.
It implies that poverty can make a person to choose a life that is against the law such as
committing a crime to gain basic needs such as robbery. Hence, the choice of life is determined
by the life chance presented to a person in society. It implies that is a person is born in a wealthy
family; the individual will have access to more desirable resources helpful for further
enhancement on the quality of life in the future.
The life chance and social choice variables affect the domain of specific well-being.
While chances along with choice both contribute to the aspect of social classes and quality of
life, there is the aspect of the social class that influences a person to choose life. Along the
depression of depressive symptoms, life chance emerges to play a significant role in the quality
of life than the life choice. The life chance is stronger than life choice to a person since life

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choice is influenced the chances represented to the individual through social class and status and
social, economic values of a family.

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