Child Vulnerability and Well-being among Farmer Families

Abstract

This research aimed to identify vulnerability and well-being of children in a family of farmers, identify the typology of vulnerability and well-being of children in the family of farmers, and analyze the relationship between family characteristics, characteristics of children with the vulnerability and well-being of children. The population in this research is family farmers who have children of 4 and 5th grade who reside in the village Sindangjaya, District Cipanas, Cianjur with a sample of 35 children. Sampling was conducted using probability sampling method with random sampling techniques. The results showed that the internal susceptibility to family farmers is low, relatively low external vulnerability, and low well-being. Typology vulnerability of children and the well-being of children in a family of farmers included in Type 1 and Type 4. There was a significant negative correlation between family size and order of the child with the child's welfare, but there was no significant relationship between the characteristics of families and children with children's vulnerability.Keywords: internal vulnerability of children, the external vulnerability of children, child welfare, family farmers.

Gender Analysis of Child Investment and Child Quality Among Farmer Families in Indonesia

“…Time is one component of investment for children (Bryant & Zink, 2006). Good parenting of farmer parents will make children can grow and develop properly because it can reduce children's vulnerability to the physical and psychological child, especially with the help of mother who could control the situation of children with physical or mental child (Primasari & Puspitawati, 2016). Parents invest time and money to their child based on their altruism.…”