Consequently, charters proudly enroll higher percentages of black and
Hispanic children than other public schools, and a growing body of research underscores their success.
As the DEP's first Environmental Justice Administrator, she discovered that Newark's poor African - American and
Hispanic preschool
children experienced higher incidents of asthma
than those in most
other New Jersey urban centers.
Millennial women across all races, as well as all three generations of African - American and
Hispanic women, are much more likely
than other groups to have concerns about paying for their
children's education and taking care of aging parents.
A covariate was included in the multivariate analyses if theoretical or empirical evidence supported its role as a risk factor for obesity, if it was a significant predictor of obesity in univariate regression models, or if including it in the full multivariate model led to a 5 % or greater change in the OR.48 Model 1 includes maternal IPV exposure, race / ethnicity (black, white,
Hispanic,
other / unknown),
child sex (male, female), maternal age (20 - 25, 26 - 28, 29 - 33, 34 - 50 years), maternal education (less
than high school, high school graduation, beyond high school), maternal nativity (US born, yes or no),
child age in months, relationship with father (yes or no), maternal smoking during pregnancy (yes or no), maternal depression (as measured by a CIDI - SF cutoff score ≥ 0.5), maternal BMI (normal / underweight, overweight, obese), low birth weight (< 2500 g, ≥ 2500 g), whether the
child takes a bottle to bed at age 3 years (yes or no), and average hours of
child television viewing per day at age 3 years (< 2 h / d, ≥ 2 h / d).