The Other Wes Moore Claim Writing I disagree with the review’s author that class was the determining factor on why Author Wes and Prisoner Wes’ lives turned out the way they did. Access to money and class was most certainly not the only determining factors to how the two Wes’s turned out. Social class and money do not equate to parental involvement. There are as many instances of uninvolved upper class parents as there are lower class parents. Upper class children use drugs too. Author Wes’s mom and grandparents were much more involved and more supportive in his life than Prisoner Wes’s. With his mother more interested in dating and drugs, and a non-involved father, Prisoner Wes had few family members who helped support him and keep him
