Children from disadvantaged families suffer disproportionately from many similar problems — lead poisoning that diminishes cognitive and behavioral capacity; toxic stress, with similar harms to student outcomes, from experiencing or witnessing violence; housing instability; parental incarceration; and many others.
Not exact matches
• The father -
child relationship is especially important in
disadvantaged families where
children suffer more
from a poor relationship with their father and benefit more when this is good (Dunn, 2004).
The research by leading early learning scientists looked at
children from a wide variety of backgrounds, including those
from advantaged and
disadvantaged families, and those who had
suffered brain injury.