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Putnam ( 2000 ) mentions in his book Bowling Alone, " Child development is powerfully shaped by social capital " and continues " presence of social capital has been linked to various positive outcomes, particularly in education ".

According to his book, these positive outcomes are the result of parents ' social capital in a community.

In states where there is a high social capital, there is also a high education performance.

The similarity of these states is that parents were more associated with their children's education.

Teachers have reported that when the parents participate more in their children's education and school life, it lowers levels of misbehavior, such as bringing weapons to school, engaging in physical violence, unauthorized absence, and being generally apathetic about education.

Borrowing Coleman's quotation from Putnam's book, Coleman once mentioned we cannot understate " the importance of the embeddedness of young persons in the enclaves of adults most proximate to them, first and most prominent the family and second, a surrounding community of adults ".