How families face their children's education
The study concentrated on the attitudes, opinions and valuations of Spanish families as to their children’s education. The panorama arising from the results of the survey is certainly optimistic. However, one must take a certain amount of care as to evaluation of the data, in which there is a mixture of reality and good wishes, logical, understandable bias in parents’ opinion of their offspring.
HOW CHILDREN’S EDUCATION IS PROGRESSING
Indeed, 70% of parents believe their children are doing well or very well in their studies in comparison with other children of their age; 57% answered that their children are motivated (always or frequently) to study; 76% of fathers and 83% of mothers are satisfied with their relation with their children as to their studies; 70% of the fathers and 71% of mothers are satisfied with their children’s academic performance.
The assessment of their children’s academic progress is high: a quarter consider it "very good", almost half "good", somewhat less "regular" and only 6% "bad". This situation is a contrast with the results of other surveys, as almost half of Spanish youths recognise that one of the most frequent reasons for conflict with their parents is precisely the matter of their studies, what suggests that approximately half of Spanish parents with children of those ages have reasons to be unsatisfied.
According to their parents, girls obtain better academic results than boys, which coincides with the data from other research related to the age band researched. On the other hand, the greater the social and cultural level of parents, the better their perception of their children’s studies. To sum up, in the same vein, the greater availability of books at home has a motivating effect on children’s curiosity (graph 5 and table 6).

Graph 5: How parents consider their child’s academic progress (by educational and professional level)