Due in part to discriminatory social policies such as redlining, children of color are more
likely than white children to live in areas that can not afford the abatement programs necessary to address lead in their communities.
Both African - American and Hispanic children are less
likely than white children to be adopted (Courtney & Wong, 1996; Wulczyn, 2000).
Black children are 7.5 times more likely and Hispanic children 2.5 times more
likely than white children to have an incarcerated parent.
Empowering parents is one of the best ways to combat the persistent finding that black children are statistically more
likely than white children to be designated as special education students, according to the National Association for the Education of African American Children with Learning Disabilities.
Black children who undergo urologic surgery are more
likely than white children to have postsurgical complications and hospital - acquired infections 30 days after the surgery.
Not exact matches
Factor in that poor black
children are almost three times more
likely to be held back in school
than their
white counterparts.
Their
children, rather
than those of highly - paid
white collar workers, are currently most
likely to be experiencing the benefits of greater father involvement.
Latino
children are less
likely to get an autism diagnosis and treatment
than white children, even though the autism rate is gr...
Overall, one in three
children in the U.S. struggle with obesity, but Black, Latino, Native American and Alaska Native kids are more
than one and a half times more
likely to be obese
than white kids.
White educators, by contrast, may be acting on a stereotype that black preschoolers are more likely to misbehave in the first place, so they judge them against a different, more lenient standard than what they're applying to white chil
White educators, by contrast, may be acting on a stereotype that black preschoolers are more
likely to misbehave in the first place, so they judge them against a different, more lenient standard
than what they're applying to
white chil
white children.
These researchers also find that
white children are more
likely than otherwise similar minority
children to receive treatment for disabilities.
As has been found in gifted education, we find that
white children are more
likely to receive special education services
than similarly achieving racial or ethnic minority
children.
White children are much more
likely than otherwise similar racial and ethnic minority
children to receive special education services in the U.S. Ensuring equity in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) means making sure all
children with disabilities are able to access the services to which they have a civil right.
Among
children displaying the same clinical needs,
white children are more
likely to receive special education services
than racial or ethnic minority
children.
Penn State University professor, David Ramey, detailed in a study two years ago that black
children are more -
likely than white peers to be suspended, expelled, and even sent to jail for the same acts of misbehavior;
white children, on the other hand, are more -
likely to be referred to psychologists and other medical professionals.
Beginning in middle school, African - American students are more
likely than Asian and
white students to say they are treated unfairly when it comes to school discipline.11 Black students are also more
likely to come from family backgrounds associated with school behavior problems; for example,
children ages 12 - 17 that come from single - parent families are at least twice as
likely to be suspended as
children from two - parent families.
Disadvantaged
white children far less
likely to get grammar school places
than ethnic minority kids (Lynn Davidson, The Sun)
First, although pre-K attendance has increased in the past two decades, rates of access to early education vary widely as a function of
children's socioeconomic backgrounds: African American, Hispanic, and low - income
children are less
likely to access center - based early childhood education
than their
white and more affluent peers.
About a quarter of all babies and toddlers in the U.S. are Hispanic, but these kids are half as
likely to have family members read to them and a third less
likely to have songs sung to them
than white, non-Latino
children, according to a recent report by the Robert R. McCormick Foundation.
Black
children are three times more
likely to be born into poverty
than their
white counterparts, and four times more
likely to be born into extreme poverty where average daily funds are less
than $ 1.25 per day, according to The World Bank.
Not only are black and Hispanic
children more
likely to grow up in poor families, but middle - class black and Hispanic
children are also much more
likely than poor
white children to live in neighborhoods and attend schools with high concentrations of poor students.
The economists found that
white children who had been in Head Start were significantly more
likely than their siblings to graduate from high school and to attend college; black
children, meanwhile, were significantly less
likely to have been convicted of a crime, but appeared to receive no education - related benefits from the program.
Hispanic
children, especially those in Spanish - dominant homes, were less
likely than white and black
children to use these technologies daily.
As a Penn State University professor, David Ramey, detailed in a study published last month in Sociology of Education, black
children are more -
likely than white peers to be suspended, expelled, and even sent to jail for the same acts of misbehavior;
white children, on the other hand, are more -
likely to be referred to psychologists and other medical professionals.
Latino
children, however, fare far worse being 60 % more
likely to develop asthma
than non-Hispanic
white children.
Close to 3 out of 4 African Americans live within 30 miles of a coal - fired power plant, and African - American
children have an 80 percent higher rate of asthma and are nearly three times more
likely to die from asthma
than their
white peers.
«An African American
child is three times more
likely to go into the emergency room for an asthma attack
than a
white child, and twice as
likely to die from asthma attacks as a
white child.
Same - sex couples in the South have among the highest rates of childrearing in the country, and same - sex couples of color are more
likely to be raising
children than white couples.
Specifically, African - American and Hispanic
children are more
than twice as
likely to live in poverty as non-Hispanic
white and Asian - Pacific Islander
children (U.S. Bureau of the Census, 2001).
Alternatively, Hispanic
children from two parent families were more
likely to be reunified
than white children from similar backgrounds.
Some research suggests that the academic deficits associated with living with a single mother are less pronounced for black
than for
white children.37 One study found that growing up in a single - parent family predicted lower socioeconomic attainment among
white women,
white men, and black women, but not among black men.38 McLanahan and Sandefur found that
white offspring from single - parent families were more
likely to drop out of high school
than were African American offspring from single - parent families.39 African American
children may thus adjust better
than white children to life in single - parent families, although the explanation for this difference is not clear.
For example, African American, Hispanic, and American Indian / Alaska Native
children are 3 times more
likely to live in poverty
than are
white and Asian
children.15 Infants and toddlers more commonly live in poverty
than do older
children.
Children whose race / ethnicity was other than white or African American were less likely to have had no adverse exposures; African American children were less likely than other children to have had at least 3 adverse exposures (χ28 = 45.62,
Children whose race / ethnicity was other
than white or African American were less
likely to have had no adverse exposures; African American
children were less likely than other children to have had at least 3 adverse exposures (χ28 = 45.62,
children were less
likely than other
children to have had at least 3 adverse exposures (χ28 = 45.62,
children to have had at least 3 adverse exposures (χ28 = 45.62, P <.05).
Black and Hispanic mothers talk less with their young
children than do
white mothers and are less
likely to read to them daily.
Girls were more
likely than boys to be overweight, as were
children living in lone parent families,
White children and
children with a long - standing illness.
Black
children and youth are more
likely than their
white and Hispanic peers to have had three or more adverse experiences (15 percent, compared with 11 percent, each).
Non-Hispanic
white boys were also more
likely to be suspended or expelled
than other
children, but by a smaller margin — 3 to 4 times higher odds.
For example, compared to older mothers, teen mothers display lower levels of verbal stimulation and involvement, higher levels of intrusiveness, and maternal speech that is less varied and complex.47, 48 Mothers with fewer years of education read to their
children less frequently25, 49 and demonstrate less sophisticated language and literacy skills themselves, 50 which affects the quantity and quality of their verbal interactions with their
children.2 Parental education, in turn, relates to household income: poverty and persistent poverty are strongly associated with less stimulating home environments, 51 and parents living in poverty have
children who are at risk for cognitive, academic, and social - emotional difficulties.52, 53 Finally, Hispanic and African American mothers are, on average, less
likely to read to their
children than White, non-Hispanic mothers; 54 and Spanish - speaking Hispanic families have fewer
children's books available in the home as compared to their non-Hispanic counterparts.25 These racial and ethnic findings are
likely explained by differences in family resources across groups, as minority status is often associated with various social - demographic risks.
Moreover, black and Hispanic students are far more
likely to grow up in poorer households, but middle - class black and Hispanic students are more
likely than poor
white children to attend schools with a higher percentage of poor students.