Not exact matches
According to the 2015 Report Card on
Child and Family Poverty in Canada, one in ten Canadians and one in five
children is food
insecure, meaning they don't know where their next meal is coming
from.
Children may be
insecure when they are away
from home because they do not feel certain that their home is a secure place to which they can return.
«The revenue generated
from this program will help fund our hunger relief programs and support the growing food
insecure population in South Jersey, which is currently at more than 170,000 people, including 57,000
children.»
As a President of a very large Food Pantry (Al Beech West Side Food Pantry in Kingston, Pa), I know to well that 1 in 5
children do not know where their next meal is coming
from meaning they are food
insecure.
It's funny how the seemingly small things cause the greatest angst for kids — a sneer
from a sibling; a curt remark
from a teacher or being left off a classmate's birthday party invitation list can leave a
child feeling
insecure, even sad.
The project asks Americans to upload their breakfast photos to the Web site shareyourbreakfast.com, and for each breakfast photo shared, Kellogg Company will donate up to $ 200,000 — the equivalent of one million school breakfasts to help feed
children from food -
insecure households.
And at a time when over 17 million American
children are growing up in food - insecure households, the House GOP proposes a cut of «about $ 650 million — or 10 percent — from the Women, Infants and Children program that feeds and educates mothers and their children
children are growing up in food -
insecure households, the House GOP proposes a cut of «about $ 650 million — or 10 percent —
from the Women, Infants and
Children program that feeds and educates mothers and their children
Children program that feeds and educates mothers and their
childrenchildren.»
Post-partum depression poses substantial adverse consequences for mothers and their infants via multiple direct biological (i.e., medication exposure, maternal genetic factors) and environmental (i.e., life with a depressed mother) mechanisms.8, 9
From the earliest newborn period, infants are very sensitive to the emotional states of their mothers and other caregivers.10, 11 Maternal mood and behaviour appear to compromise infant social, emotional and cognitive functioning.11 - 15 As
children grow, the impact of maternal mental illness appears as cognitive compromise,
insecure attachment and behavioural difficulties during the preschool and school periods.6,16 - 19
To test his hunch that early puberty tracks
insecure attachment between mom and baby, Belsky crunched numbers on 373 girls who were followed
from birth until their 15th birthday as part of a National Institute of
Child Health and Human Development study on early child develop
Child Health and Human Development study on early
child develop
child development.
Read more about how
insecure attachment affects us
from childhood through adulthood, and how it may be affecting your relationships today, and what to do about that — both for yourself and for your
children — in the new ebook, Attachment Matters, available only through Attachment Parenting International (API).
Whether secure or
insecure, the parent -
child attachment quality determines that
child's ability to maintain emotional balance, enjoy being his - or herself, enjoy being with others, and rebound
from disappointment, discouragement, and other life stress.
In regard to
children's attachments to their mothers, based on reports
from only 60 % of the mothers, the 51 frequently overnighting infants had more
insecure attachments (43 %) than the 219 occasional overnighters (16 %) and the 364 non-overnighters (25 %).
Although the Australian work of McIntosh (2010) found that infants under two who spent one night or more a week and toddlers who spend 10 days a month of overnight time in their non-primary caregiver's care are more irritable, more severely distressed and
insecure in their relationships with their primary parent, less persistent at tasks, and more physically and emotionally stressed, this study has been largely discredited by a recently published consensus report endorsed by 110
child development experts (Warshak, 2013), which found that McIntosh drew unwarranted conclusions
from her unrepresentative and flawed data.
Some of the recently developed devices can make
children with impairments decent members of the modern society preventing them
from feeling
insecure and distracted.
Children under 3 - 4 years may still feel
insecure when they are separated
from their parents, especially at night.
The theories behind
Insecure Attachment are explained and practised and the happy
children who emerge by the end of a program of family therapy sessions are barely recognizable
from the desperately unhappy
children in the earliest videos.»
Another type of attachment is «anxious - avoidant
insecure attachment,» or a
child who seems distant
from his or her caregiver and ignores the caregiver during a reunion.
An infant must be fed by the primary parental figure, usually the mother, and must have the mother present during severely physically painful events in order for a parental attachment bond to form, and either a consistent omission of the mother
from this process or an alteration between two people (the original mother and the adoptive mother) can cause either an
insecure attachment or disorganized attachment
from the parent to the
child.
On social - emotional measures, foster
children in the NSCAW study tended to have more compromised functioning than would be expected
from a high - risk sample.43 Moreover, as indicated in the previous section, research suggests that foster
children are more likely than nonfoster care
children to have
insecure or disordered attachments, and the adverse long - term outcomes associated with such attachments.44 Many studies of foster
children postulate that a majority have mental health difficulties.45 They have higher rates of depression, poorer social skills, lower adaptive functioning, and more externalizing behavioral problems, such as aggression and impulsivity.46 Additionally, research has documented high levels of mental health service utilization among foster
children47 due to both greater mental health needs and greater access to services.
Finally, an
insecure parent -
child attachment has also been identified as a risk factor for the development of anxiety disorders.7 Attachment is defined as the intimate emotional bond that forms between a
child and caregiver and different patterns of attachment have been identified.8 An
insecure, in contrast to a secure, attachment is one in which the
child experiences the caregiver as unpredictable or does not experience comfort
from the relationship.
Drawing on first - hand testimonies
from the
children of separated parents, Dr Neale says that in some cases arrangements for sharing time between the homes of Mum and Dad can be the product of
insecure and over needy parenting, and a rather uneasy compromise between parents over rights to the
children.
As young as preschool,
children from food
insecure homes have high rates of social and emotional problems such as aggression, anxiety, depression, and hyperactivity.
If this pattern of inadequate care continues, the
child likely becomes insecurely attached and builds his future
from an
insecure model.
Therefore, instead of seeing this resistance to the «all - bad» parent as intentional parental alienation or abuse which justifies a
child feeling estranged
from a parent, the driving force appears to be much more of an unconscious outgrowth of
insecure or disorganized attachments which the
child is trying to resolve based on the most fundamental biological drives for survival.
Given that
children diagnosed with ADHD are often also diagnosed with «associated conditions,»
from trauma,
insecure attachment, and depression (Leuzinger - Bohleber and Fischman, 2010; Storebø et al., 2016) to learning disabilities (Mayes et al., 2000; DuPaul et al., 2013) and autism (Reiersen and Todd, 2008; Antshel et al., 2016), it is very unlikely that a particular EBPT will be helpful for all
children grouped under the ADHD term.
Van Ijzendoorn & Kroonenberg (1988) wanted to investigate if attachment styles (secure and
insecure) are universal (the same) across cultures, or culturally specific (vary considerably
from place to place, due to traditions, the social environment, or beliefs about
children).
Drawing
from the literature, we posited that socially inhibited play behaviors in childhood would be associated with maternal depression as well as with an
insecure mother -
child attachment relationship.
Or, parents who are
insecure and feel inadequate themselves may seek out comfort
from their
child, unintentionally reversing the role between
child and parent.
I'm talking about
children who were abused or neglected, adopted
from foster care (after multiple placements) or who are dealing with some sort of
insecure attachment.
What we do know is that a secure attachment with at least one caregiver seems to buffer a
child from the poor development we might otherwise see following
insecure attachment with others.
Insecure - avoidant infant - caregiver attachment presumably results
from the caregiver consistently responding to the
child's distress in ways that are rejecting.
When mothers are insensitive,
children are more likely to become
insecure, and this is when (as Belsky notes5) stress
from child care arrangements can shift the odds further in the direction of insecurity.
Individuals whose attachment classifications changed
from secure in infancy to
insecure in adulthood were more likely to have experienced negative life events (such as divorce), and
children who demonstrated
insecure attachment in infancy were more likely to remain
insecure if they experienced negative life events.
Importantly, rates of security in the mother -
child dyads that received the attachment - theory informed intervention did not differ
from those present in the dyads where mothers were not depressed.5 For toddlers who participated in the attachment intervention, there was also a greater maintenance of secure attachment organization among those who were initially secure, as well as a greater shift
from insecure to secure attachment groupings.
While treating these
children in their school environment, I have come to find out that many of their behavioral problems stemmed
from feelings of
insecure attachment and a lack of sense of safety.
Seven studies on attachment security / disorganization and
child maltreatment in families have been reported, and six studies on attachment in institution - reared
children using the (modified) Strange Situation procedure to assess attachment.8 In order to examine the impact of
child maltreatment on attachment we compare the studies» combined distribution of attachment patterns to the normative low - risk distribution of attachment (N = 2104, derived
from the meta - analysis of Van IJzendoorn, Schuengel, & Bakermans - Kranenburg9):
insecure - avoidant (A): 15 %, secure (B): 62 %,
insecure - resistant (C): 9 %, and disorganized (D): 15 %.
«This book vividly shows how creative arts and play therapy can help
children recover
from experiences of disrupted or
insecure attachment.
Just like when you were a
child, when your adult love relationship feels
insecure, anxiety and depression result
from this lack of safety in your relationship.
Children raised by grandparents will likely benefit
from bullying prevention programs that take into account the specific dynamics, such as
insecure attachment, associated with living in this alternate family arrangement.
The present study showed that
insecure attachment (88.1 %) and, in particular, ambivalent style (42.9 %) is very common among
children / adolescents suffering
from migraine.
Comparisons of (a)
children who changed
from insecure to secure with those who were stable
insecure and (b) stable secure
children with those who changed
from secure to
insecure identified contextual,
child, and maternal interaction factors associated with attaining secure attachment.