The paper investigates the patterns of multiple advantages and disadvantages of parents’ educational attainment and place of residence and their impact on children`s education level by using data from the Generations and Gender Survey (2020). There were employed correlation and multiple regression analysis. The results show that parents’ educational attainment is a much stronger predictor than the age or gender of an individual’s education level. Young people (25-35 years) whose parents have general secondary education (gymnasium) or less are about twice as likely to complete similarly secondary education as those with at least one parent with higher education. Place of residence were also shown to have significant influences young people’s level of education. The rural area of residence meant fewer years in education, and the urban area signified more years in education for both males and females. It is concluded that parents’ educational level (less educated) and place of living (rural) determine the unequal opportunities among young people that face difficulties in getting rid of the disadvantages of family and environmental background. The persistence of these issues over the years in our country denotes that social policy does not reach its goal of breaking cycles of intergenerational disadvantage and thus preventing the development of a self-replicating underclass.