Not exact matches
Benefits: They will facilitate your organisation to meet your targets according to the ECM requirements They will help you engage with men, fathers and male carers in your setting Will give men and fathers ideas of different activities they can do with their
children Highlights the key role men, fathers and male carers play in achieving better
outcomes for children and
young people: «Be Healthy», «Stay Safe», «Enjoy and Achieve», «Make a Positive Contribution» and «Achieve
Economic Wellbeing»
Healthy
child development is the foundation
for human capital and the basis for future community and economic development.1 A significant body of convergent research emphasises the importance of the prenatal and early years for health and developmental outcomes throughout the life course.2 For a growing number of children, suboptimal developmental trajectories are well established by the time they start school, and become increasingly difficult and costly to modify with the passage of time.3 Thus, investing in young children is important for the prevention of disease later in life and contributes to their full participation in society as healthy and productive adults.4
for human capital and the basis
for future community and economic development.1 A significant body of convergent research emphasises the importance of the prenatal and early years for health and developmental outcomes throughout the life course.2 For a growing number of children, suboptimal developmental trajectories are well established by the time they start school, and become increasingly difficult and costly to modify with the passage of time.3 Thus, investing in young children is important for the prevention of disease later in life and contributes to their full participation in society as healthy and productive adults.4
for future community and
economic development.1 A significant body of convergent research emphasises the importance of the prenatal and early years
for health and developmental outcomes throughout the life course.2 For a growing number of children, suboptimal developmental trajectories are well established by the time they start school, and become increasingly difficult and costly to modify with the passage of time.3 Thus, investing in young children is important for the prevention of disease later in life and contributes to their full participation in society as healthy and productive adults.4
for health and developmental
outcomes throughout the life course.2
For a growing number of children, suboptimal developmental trajectories are well established by the time they start school, and become increasingly difficult and costly to modify with the passage of time.3 Thus, investing in young children is important for the prevention of disease later in life and contributes to their full participation in society as healthy and productive adults.4
For a growing number of
children, suboptimal developmental trajectories are well established by the time they start school, and become increasingly difficult and costly to modify with the passage of time.3 Thus, investing in
young children is important
for the prevention of disease later in life and contributes to their full participation in society as healthy and productive adults.4
for the prevention of disease later in life and contributes to their full participation in society as healthy and productive adults.4, 5
See,
for example, Janet Currie, «Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise: Socioeconomic Status, Poor Health in Childhood, and Human Capital Development,» Journal of
Economic Literature 47, no. 1 (2009): 87 — 122; and Janet Currie and others, «
Child Health and
Young Adult
Outcomes,» Journal of Human Resources, forthcoming.
Paying Later: The High Costs of Failing to Invest in
Young Children (PDF - 220 KB) Pew Center on the States, Partnership
for America's
Economic Success (2011) Reports the findings of a study that explored the social costs caused by an array of bad
outcomes, including
child abuse and neglect, high school dropouts, criminal activity, teen pregnancy, drug and alcohol abuse, and other health problems, and how these costs could be reduced by investing in evidence - based early childhood programs.
Parenting is a proximal variable in the causal pathway to adverse
outcomes in childhood and adolescence, of which material disadvantage and
economic hardship are distal variables.32 Behavioural problems and temper tantrums among young children have been shown to increase as a result of parenting changes associated with economic hardship.33 Economic deprivation has also been associated with decreased respect for the father and increased dependence on peer group for adolescent boys, and lowered feelings of self adequacy and reduced goal aspirations for adolescent girls.15 Economic hardship appears to have direct and indirect effects on adolescent func
economic hardship are distal variables.32 Behavioural problems and temper tantrums among
young children have been shown to increase as a result of parenting changes associated with
economic hardship.33 Economic deprivation has also been associated with decreased respect for the father and increased dependence on peer group for adolescent boys, and lowered feelings of self adequacy and reduced goal aspirations for adolescent girls.15 Economic hardship appears to have direct and indirect effects on adolescent func
economic hardship.33
Economic deprivation has also been associated with decreased respect for the father and increased dependence on peer group for adolescent boys, and lowered feelings of self adequacy and reduced goal aspirations for adolescent girls.15 Economic hardship appears to have direct and indirect effects on adolescent func
Economic deprivation has also been associated with decreased respect
for the father and increased dependence on peer group
for adolescent boys, and lowered feelings of self adequacy and reduced goal aspirations
for adolescent girls.15
Economic hardship appears to have direct and indirect effects on adolescent func
Economic hardship appears to have direct and indirect effects on adolescent functioning.
Here are outline eight guiding principles
for effective investments in early childhood development that promote positive social and
economic outcomes by building a «scaffolding of support» around disadvantaged
young children and their families.