Environmental contributions to DD include in utero and/or early exposure to toxins (e.g., alcohol, lead) as well as poverty and/or early trauma such as child abuse or neglect. In fact, poverty is among the most highly suspected conditions associated with a variety of disabilities and health...
Child disability and provision of unpaid care by parents may contribute to a family’s poverty status. In this paper, using data from the Family Resources Survey-2018/19, a sample of 5451 families with dependent children was analysed. Sub-samples were created based on the groups of interest:...
Campbell Robb, CEO of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, said: "These worrying figures suggest that we are at a turning point in our fight against poverty. Political choices, wage stagnation and economic uncertainty mean that hundreds of thousands more people are now struggling to make ends meet. T...
BAGHDAD, June 1 (Xinhua) -- As most children around the world are celebrating International Children's Day on Saturday, the children in Iraq are still struggling to escape the impacts of violence, displacement, and terrorism that plagued the country following the U.S.-led invasion in 2003. A...
poverty can make the fundamental necessities for their children’s healthy growth and development (such as safe housing, nutritious food, regular health care) very difficult or impossible to get. How does this reality impact your relationship with the children and their families, the opportunities yo...
in the region of the DRC that CBS News visited are not in school. They're working in mines instead. What we found when we travelled to the south of the country for this investigation was a complex host of barriers for children; weak economy, corrupt government, but above all, poverty. ...
associations with Hispanic child health, and that living more years in poverty is associated with declining health status among young Hispanic children. Intera... KK Schmeer - 《Social Science & Medicine》 被引量: 40发表: 2012年 Why have street children disappeared? – The role of international...
Since this sample originated from an RCT of school support interventions for children in OHC, children struggling in school may have been overrepresented. However, the present results broadly confirm the current evidence in the research literature concerning the neuropsychological ramifications of childhood...
SUMMARY. A startling increase in the number of severely handicapped babies surviving beyond their first few weeks is confirmed by an analysis of families applying to the Family Fund for help. Many more of these babies, too, require so much more care and attention than a normal tiny baby that...
Parents Under Pressure: Struggling to Raise Children in an Unequal America By Karen Zilberstein, LICSW Levellers Press, March 2019 One in six American children lives in poverty. One in six struggles with a developmental disability. Despite the prevalence of these circumstances, societal expectations an...