Sentences with phrase «children from poor families with»

Analyses of the interactions between poverty and intervention condition revealed that the full intervention was more effective for children from poor families with respect to several outcomes.

In Afghanistan and Pakistan today the Taliban have created thousands of madrassas, where children from poor families with no access to education can receive food and what passes for learning (but what is in fact quite the opposite).

Psychologist Fonda Davis Eyler and pediatrician Marylou Behnke studied 300 children from poor families with similar racial backgrounds.

Not exact matches

Poor parents who have been enabled to choose any school for their children are delighted with the results, according to PAVE's annual report which is available free from Family Service America, 11700 West Lake Park Drive, Milwaukee, WI 53224.

Coming, as they often do, from families with a history of child and wife abuse, alcoholism, promiscuity, poor nutrition, a lack of discipline and low academic achievement, they find adjustment to stricter, often fundamentalist standards difficult.

«You have to remember, he came from a very poor family, and suddenly, when he was 16, still basically a child, he was thrown into the public eye and faced with a lot of pressure,» says his friend Valdano.

And these days, unless children from poor families get a college degree, their economic mobility is severely restricted: Young people who grow up in families in the lowest income quintile (with household income below about $ 21,500) and don't obtain a B.A. now have just a one in two chance of escaping that bottom economic bracket as adults.

• 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).

Still, advocates for the poor remain alarmed that with the potential for stepped - up auditing, many children would be dropped from the school lunch program even if their families meet the eligibility requirements.

Some barriers include the negative attitudes of women and their partners and family members, as well as health care professionals, toward breastfeeding, whereas the main reasons that women do not start or give up breastfeeding are reported to be poor family and social support, perceived milk insufficiency, breast problems, maternal or infant illness, and return to outside employment.2 Several strategies have been used to promote breastfeeding, such as setting standards for maternity services3, 4 (eg, the joint World Health Organization — United Nations Children's Fund [WHO - UNICEF] Baby Friendly Initiative), public education through media campaigns, and health professionals and peer - led initiatives to support individual mothers.5 — 9 Support from the infant's father through active participation in the breastfeeding decision, together with a positive attitude and knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding, has been shown to have a strong influence on the initiation and duration of breastfeeding in observational studies, 2,10 but scientific evidence is not available as to whether training fathers to manage the most common lactation difficulties can enhance breastfeeding rates.

Federal assistance is designed to help poor families with nearly every essential need from housing to health care, but diapers — a product fundamental to child health that no baby can do without — aren't included.

In a population - based Canadian study of children with epilepsy, each of whom had access to universal health care, those from poor families had the same medical course and remission rate as their wealthier counterparts, but they had a less favorable social outcome as adults.

In Dominican and African American families from poor areas of New York City, living in a neighborhood with dense traffic and industrial facilities increased a child's risk of developing asthma, according to Miller and other Columbia University researchers.

The findings are especially relevant to families with children living in low - income households; these kids are at greater risk of health problems resulting from poor air quality.

Moreover, other research has revealed that children from poor families often start school with inadequate social - emotional skills, which can stymie academic progress.

Out of all the children, boys, children from larger families, as well as those with more cognitive, motor or behaviour problems, and poorer parent - infant relationships in infancy, had fewer friends, met them less and were less accepted by them.

Intended to help schools address the attainment gap amongst children from low income families, some of this funding could be used to address the digital divide and ensure pupils who have poor home access are equipped with the resources they need.

«Because, as a result, children from low - income families are less likely to attend schools with children from affluent families, and this ultimately isolates the poor kids.»

«From these findings, we know that naturally occurring decreases in family income - to - needs were associated with worse developmental outcomes for children from poor families,» says Dearing, who coauthored the study with Kathleen McCartney, a professor at HGSE, and Beck Taylor, an economist at Baylor UniversFrom these findings, we know that naturally occurring decreases in family income - to - needs were associated with worse developmental outcomes for children from poor families,» says Dearing, who coauthored the study with Kathleen McCartney, a professor at HGSE, and Beck Taylor, an economist at Baylor Universfrom poor families,» says Dearing, who coauthored the study with Kathleen McCartney, a professor at HGSE, and Beck Taylor, an economist at Baylor University.

But they were surprised to find that children in poor families who benefitted from increased income scored about the same as children who were not poor to begin with.

Quality Preschool Benefits Poor and Affluent Kids, Study Finds NBC News, March 28, 2013 «While most previous studies had focused only on kids from underprivileged backgrounds, in the new study Harvard researchers found that regardless of family income children who got a year of quality prekindergarten did better in reading and math than kids who spent the year in daycare, with relatives, or in some other kind of preschool, according to the report which was published in Child Development.»

«Some of the students from poorer families say that with limited resources, they are glad they didn't have a sibling and now they don't want their child to go without.

It found that in England, poorer children — those from families in the bottom quarter of household incomes — had less than a 10 per cent chance of attending a grammar school, compared with a 40 per cent chance among those from families in the top quarter of household incomes.

(HealthDay)-- U.S. children entering kindergarten do worse on tests when they're from poorer families with lower expectations and less focus on reading, computer use and preschool attendance, new research suggests.

Schools might have to address poor teacher — family relationships, children who have difficulties with their classmates, and students whose homes are relatively far from school.

Student performance in charter schools was significantly lower than regular nearby schools in just five states with about 30 percent of national charter enrollment, mostly minority children from poor families.

The number of children from poor families is rising across the district, and there are more schools with high concentrations of poverty than there were 10 years ago.

The State Department of Education, in collusion with non-educator administrators such as Steven Adamowski, have handed Achievement First millions in public tax payer dollars to experiment on children from poor families.

Teachers and administrators who work with children from low - income families say one reason teachers struggle to help these students improve reading comprehension is that deficits start at such a young age: in the 1980s, the psychologists Betty Hart and Todd R. Risley found that by the time they are 4 years old, children from poor families have heard 32 million fewer words than children with professional parents.

While Coates doesn't touch on education policy, he essentially makes a strong historical case for why reformers (especially increasingly erstwhile conservatives in the movement) must go back to embracing accountability measures and a strong federal role in education policymaking that, along with other changes in American society, are key to helping children from poor and minority households (as well as their families and communities) attain economic and social equality.

If we are to stop squandering the potential of so many of our young people, educators must face the fact that schools alone will never be able to adequately address the disadvantages that children from poor families and blighted neighborhoods bring with them to school.

Pupil premium funding is intended to help provide more support for children from poorer families, with primary schools currently claiming # 953 per year for each eligible child.

He said the gap between white British children from poorer families and those from other ethnic groups needed to be closed for England to catch up with the world's leading nations.

«We are worried that increased competition for school places will further exacerbate the social segregation in schools, with wealthier parents able to buy properties closest to favoured schools and children from poorer families being squeezed out and concentrated in the less popular schools.

Greg Duncan, George Farkas, and Katherine Magnuson demonstrate that a child from a poor family is two to four times as likely as a child from an affluent family to have classmates with low skills and behavior problems — attributes which have a negative effect on the learning of their fellow students.

While the states primary school funding grant provides 30 percent more money for children from low - income families, experts who testified for the plaintiffs during the trial testified that it costs two to three times as much to educate poor children who often show up for school with major deficiencies.

Among children with disabilities, 28 % are poor versus 16 % from families classified as non-poor.»

It is believed the new schools will be required to set aside a defined proportion of places to children from low - income families to tackle evidence showing that poorer pupils fare worse in areas with selective schools.

What the Left has done pretty well is boost marijuana sales, create the vaping industry and help rob the bread from the mouths of children in poor families with smoking parents.

But (from a family lawyer's perspective) it beats turning away the working poor who stand to lose everything they own and whose children will go without support because their opposing party has relatives with deep pockets whose skilled and zealous counsel can overwhelm them.

Because poverty predicts risk for school adjustment problems, low achievement, crime, and other problem behaviors, the effects of the full intervention on children from poor families were investigated using logistic and linear regression methods as appropriate, with terms for intervention and free lunch eligibility as main effects and an interaction term for intervention by participation in the free lunch program.

Further, only 13 % of the full intervention children from poor families had repeated a grade compared with 30 % of their control counterparts (P =.007).

Families may be time poor because of frequent medical appointments, they may have financial stress because of medical bills or being unable to take paid employment or they may feel tired from the physical and emotional toll that can sometimes be a part of supporting a child with high needs.

A range of childhood psychosocial risk factors have been associated with depression, including characteristics of the child (eg, behavioral and socioemotional problems, poor school performance), characteristics of the parents (eg, parent psychopathology, rejecting or intrusive behavior), and family circumstances (eg, the loss of a parent, physical or sexual violence, family discord).12 - 15 However, it has not been shown decisively whether these risks distinguish juvenile from adult - onset MDD.

Children in family and friends care have experienced similar adversities to those in the care system but they and their carers received much less support: almost all carers (95 %) felt they could have been provided with more support, and most (72 %) rated the support from Children's Services as poor or very poor.

Many trials used volunteers or people selected by referrers as willing to take part in parenting projects, thus excluding many disorganised, unmotivated, or disadvantaged families, who have the most antisocial children.2 A review of meta - analyses of published trials of psychological treatments for childhood disorders found that in university settings the effect size was large, from 0.71 to 0.84 SD.12 In contrast, a review of six studies of outcome in regular service clinics since 1950 showed no significant effects, 12 and a large trial offering unrestricted access to outpatient services found no improvement.13 Reasons suggested for the poor outcome in clinic cases include that they have more severe problems, come from more distressed families, and receive less empirically supported interventions from staff with heavier caseloads.

In many families, informal support from extended family (including grandparents) and peers for both parents and children is sufficient to get through the difficulties of parental separation or to cope with poor parental mental health.

Albeit based on older children than in GUS, children aged 13 to 14 years who live in families with five or more problems (such as neither parent in work, poor housing conditions, parents with mental health problems) are 36 times more likely to be excluded from school than children in families with no problems and six times more likely to have been in care or to have contact with the police (HM Treasury and DFES, 2007).

Fathers from families where the parents enjoyed a good relationship with each other (high support) are around half as likely to have a poor father - child relationship as those with a poor quality relationship (low support)- see Figure 5 - F.

Available: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2010/04/26095519/12 Barnes, M., Connolly, A. and Tomaszewski, W (2008) The circumstances of persistently poor families with children: Evidence from the Families and Children Studyfamilies with children: Evidence from the Families and Children Studychildren: Evidence from the Families and Children StudyFamilies and Children StudyChildren Study (FACS).