Sentences with phrase «race differences in child»

Race differences in child protective services investigation of abuse and neglected children.

Not exact matches

After adjusting their findings to account for differences in race and ethnicity, sex, age, poverty level, education and urban density of the children's neighborhoods, Keet and her team found that for each microgram / cubic meter increase in coarse particulate matter, asthma diagnosis increased by 0.6 percent, emergency room visits for asthma by 1.7 percent and hospitalizations for asthma by 2.3 percent.

A study published recently in the IBD Journal found significant differences in hospital readmissions, medication usage, and both medical and surgical complications of children with Crohn's disease related to race.

Similarly, there's no reason why Williams and Jordan can not play brother and sister in the Fantastic Four franchise reboot, just because of the differences in race; after all, there's nothing to prevent the characters from being the children of a biracial couple (welcome to the 21st century, folks).

Turning from race to class differences, we find that more than half (51 percent) of low - income children entering adolescence were living in single - parent families around the time the Moynihan Report was published.

Importantly, Moe finds that «the effect of choice... is to reduce the social differences between public and private» in terms of the educational background, income, race, and religiosity of parents who would place their children in private schools.

That said, it seems clear that, as a nation, we have not done nearly enough to teach our children how to look across lines of race and class and see similarities rather than differences — to see themselves and their friends reflected in the faces of others rather than unknown and perhaps unknowable strangers.

In the end, the demographic shifts and between - grade race and class differences limited the potential collective benefits of PTO activities, as leadership was concentrated in early grade parents, and the first priority of these parents was to look out for the well - being of their childreIn the end, the demographic shifts and between - grade race and class differences limited the potential collective benefits of PTO activities, as leadership was concentrated in early grade parents, and the first priority of these parents was to look out for the well - being of their childrein early grade parents, and the first priority of these parents was to look out for the well - being of their children.

Race does influence differences in parents» and teachers» perceptions of children's noncognitive skills.

The concept of an achievement gap dates back to the 1960s and focuses on the differences in educational outcomes by race (between white children and children of color) and socioeconomic status (between children from low - income and higher income households).

Eliminating those differences in test scores between middle - class white students and minority, low - income and non-native English - speaking children is one of the key components of Obama's Race to the Top initiative and the proposed changes to No Child Left Behind.

However, evidence for the relationship between poverty and children's distress is limited by the use of measures of poverty at a single point in time, by a failure to examine race or ethnic differences, and by a lack of concern with explanations for poverty's effects.

On average, single - parent families had only half the income of two - parent families, and this difference accounted for about half the gap between the two sets of children in high school dropout and nonmarital teen birth rates (in regression models that also controlled for race, sex, mother's and father's education, number of siblings, and residence).31

Caballero, C., Edwards R. & Puthussery S. (2008a), Parenting «Mixed» Children: Negotiating difference and belonging in mixed race, ethnicity and faith families.

Similarly, while Alabama often scores well below the national average on the overall Kids Count rankings and has a higher rate of overall poverty, its rankings rise when examined by different races and ethnicities — and the disparities (differences in overall scores for white non-Hispanic children and African - American non-Hispanic children or Hispanic children) are much smaller than many northern states.

Analyses comparing mothers with no participating children and mothers who had at least one participating child revealed no differences between these two groups in terms of race, marital status, education, age, or number of children, but that daughters, marrieds, and those with higher education were slightly more likely to participate, consistent with other studies with multiple generations (Kalmijn & Liefbroer, 2011; Rossi & Rossi, 1990).

Controlling for these two factors, in addition to controls for maternal age, age of youngest child, number of children, and race / ethnicity, eliminates or reverses differences in child care time between married and single mothers.

ANCOVA (covarying for any between group differences in age, gender, race, and parent occupation) and Cohen's d were applied to determine the difference in daytime sleepiness between children with ADHD - C, ADHD - I, and controls.

Analyses comparing mothers with no participating children and mothers who had at least one participating child revealed no differences between these two groups in terms of race, marital status, education, age, or number of children.

Cases missing data (n = 194, 21 %) were compared to cases with complete data on an array of demographic characteristics; no differences in child (e.g., treatment status, gender, birth weight, birth health status, early indicators of behavior), family (e.g., composition, conflict), or parent characteristics (e.g., race / ethnicity, education level, age) were found.