The Economic Risk of Childhood in America: Estimating the Probability of Poverty across the Formative Years

Rank, Mark R.; Hirschl, Thomas A.

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“…Recent research has shown that 69% of African American children will be poor during at least 1 year of their childhood, as compared with 26% of White children. 4 Consequently, it is impossible to adequately assess the effect of poverty while statistically controlling for race/ethnicity, because poverty status is intertwined with race/ethnicity. 30 Instead, prevalence rates of fair/poor health are reported by family income for each racial/ethnic group in Table 3.…”

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“…2 As a result of the dynamic nature of poverty, most poor children will not be poor for their entire childhood; 3 however, 34% of US children will experience poverty during at least 1 year of their lives by the time they reach 17 years of age. 4 Although moving parents from welfare to work has decreased the number of families on welfare, it has not decreased the child poverty rate 2 and, in fact, has increased the number of poor families without essential supports such as food stamps. 5 Poverty has consequences for children.…”

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Food insufficiency, family income, and health in US preschool and school-aged children

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OBJECTIVES: This study investigated associations between family income, food insufficiency, and health among US preschool and school-aged children. METHODS: Data from the third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey were analyzed. Children were classified as food insufficient if the family respondent reported that the family sometimes or often did not get enough food to eat. Regression analyses were conducted with health measures as the outcome variables. Prevalence rates of health variables were compared by family income category, with control for age and gender. Odds ratios for food insufficiency were calculated with control for family income and other potential confounding factors. RESULTS: Low-income children had a higher prevalence of poor/fair health status and iron deficiency than high-income children. After confounding factors, including poverty status, had been controlled, food-insufficient children were significantly more likely to have poorer health status and to experience more frequent stomachaches and headaches than food-sufficient children; preschool food-insufficient children had more frequent colds. CONCLUSIONS: Food insufficiency and low family income are health concerns for US preschool and school-aged children.

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“…♦ Most adults adjust well to divorce over time: 30% feel their lives were negatively impacted [17]. ♦ Divorce and unmarried child bearing are highly related to child poverty [25]. ♦ A small number of studies have found positive individual benefits of divorce such as greater autonomy, personal growth, and happiness [5].…”

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The State of the American Family: The Paradox of How Families and Family Values Are Changing While Staying the Same

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2018

Vestn. Ross. univ. družby nar., Ser. Sociologiâ

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“…According to the National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP; see http://www.nccp.org/pub_cpt05b.html), more than 12 million children (17% of all children in the United States) live in families with incomes below the federal poverty level. Rank and Hirschl (1999) reported that 33% of all American children spend at least 1 year of their lives living below the poverty line. Poverty has an extremely negative effect on academic, social, and literacy skills (Adams, 1990;Brooks-Gunn & Duncan, 1997;National Center for Education Statistics, 2000;Wigfield et al, 1997).…”

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Double Jeopardy for Children Who Stutter

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Communication Disorders Quarterly

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The primary purpose of this study was to examine the influence of racial and ethnic backgrounds in children who stutter (CWS) with 18 specific coexisting disorders. A sample of 1,184 speech-language pathologists responded to a detailed questionnaire designed to answer questions about the type and prevalence of coexisting disorders in 2,535 CWS. Results suggest that 866 (34.1%) children from diverse racial and cultural backgrounds displayed six major coexisting disorders: learning disabilities, literacy disorders, attention deficit disorders, auditory processing disorders, neuropsychological disorders, and behavioral disorders. Measures of risk, relative risks, and odds ratio for racial and ethnic differences among groups of CWS were calculated. African American CWS show a higher risk for coexisting learning disabilities, literacy disorders, attention deficit disorders, and behavioral disorders than White, non-Hispanic, Hispanic, and Asian CWS. Males who stutter had a significantly greater number of coexisting disorders than females who stutter. A number of alternative interpretations are presented.

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The Economic Risk of Childhood in America: Estimating the Probability of Poverty across the Formative Years

Cited by 59 publications

References 21 publications

Food insufficiency, family income, and health in US preschool and school-aged children

Food insufficiency, family income, and health in US preschool and school-aged children

The State of the American Family: The Paradox of How Families and Family Values Are Changing While Staying the Same

Double Jeopardy for Children Who Stutter

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