Among the OECD countries, Costa Rica had the highest share of children living in poverty, reaching 28.5 percent in 2022.
This study investigated associations between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) in early childhood (at ages 9 months and 3 years) and adiposity trajectories of children/adolescents from age 5 to age 17, and the potential interaction between ACEs and poverty on adiposity trajectories. Methods Data ...
Read the full-text online article and more details about Statistics Tell a Tale of Two Cities; Byker and Elswick Have High Percentage of Child Poverty While Monkseaton among UK's Best Off.Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)
Children living in poverty are five times more likely to be victimized:Poverty is a considerable risk factor for child abuse. Child abuse rates are five times higher for children living in poverty or low socioeconomic status than those who don’t. Drug abuse is a huge risk factor:Studies fou...
Child poverty in perspective: An overview of child well-being in rich countries. Innocenti report card 7. Florence: UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre. Google Scholar UNICEF Spain. (2012). Children’s well-being from their own point of view. What affects the children’s well-being in the ...
Kurvinen, H. (2023). Children and the Mediated Experiences of the Welfare State: The International Year of the Child (1979) in the Finnish Public Sphere. In: Haapala, P., Harjula, M., Kokko, H. (eds) Experiencing Society and the Lived Welfare State. Palgrave Studies in the History of...
(England, Wales and Northern Ireland). Family SES was indicated by education and the National Statistics Socioeconomic Classification (NS-SEC). For education, parents reported their highest qualification for which they earned a certification (degree level or above; below degree level; and no ...
Univariate analyses were conducted to explore descriptive statistics of the sample (e.g., race/ethnicity, household status, child gender, whether the caregiver returned their child to school/daycare). 2.4.1. Factors in decisions Three multinomial logistic regressions models were conducted to determine...
Child demographic factors were sex, age (five- and eight-year-olds) and country of residency (England, Wales and Northern Ireland). Family SES was indicated by education and the National Statistics Socioeconomic Classification (NS-SEC). For education, parents reported their highest qualification ...
The recent rise in maternal workforce participation has led to more research regarding the role of maternal employment for (early) childhood mental health.