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Description: The overarching hypothesis is that a mother's education level when moderated by style of upbringing does impact their child's educational achievements. Existing research has mainly focused on the role of race and socioeconomic factors in society in general but fails to consider what happens within the household itself. Using the National Longitudinal Survey for the years 1997 to 2015 dataset (NLSY13), we analyzed the effects of the mother's education level on the child's education level. With help from the control variables of race, gender, and income; as well as the moderators of mother's strictness and supportiveness; we were able to conclude both from bivariate and multivariate models that a mother's highest grade level positively impacts the education level of their child, or the respondent of this survey. We additionally supported the general idea that the education of parents is the strongest predictor in a child's academic success, stronger than the variables we controlled for in the multivariate regression models. In order to further improve both the mother and child's educational achievements, policy initiatives should be in place to encourage female empowerment, gender equality, and access to education for women, so that they can create motivation in their children to find educational success.