Sentences with phrase «poor families with children»

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 Study (FACS).

More than half of poor families with children have a video game system, such as an Xbox or PlayStation.

The marital situation of the low - income family is now terrifying — 71 per cent of poor families with children are not married.

Worse, it hurts poor families with children the most, while the now relatively few dairy farmers are, on average, millionaires.

Before Obamacare, Medicaid programs were primarily geared towards working poor families with children, leaving many poor childless adults without an affordable public health plan.

This IFS research puts the Budget's regressive impact beyond doubt: the poorest will be hit more than many of the richest in cash terms let alone as a percentage; poor and middle income families with children lose out more than any other household types and the very poorest families with children lose more than any other groups — with 5 per cent of their total income being cut.

Child Health plus greatly expanded coverage for poorer families with children under 19 who did not qualify for Medicaid.

It has big social implications, too: that a child with an instrument and a teacher is no longer poor or excluded; that a poor family with a child in an orchestra has a path to the future.

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As a child, I often filled in these blanks with my very active imagination, and my poor mother would have to refute yet another wild story of mine about how I'd come to live with my family.

Before Obamacare, Medicaid was largely a program that helped poor, working families with children.

Her backstory of growing up in an African - American family of 10 children in inner - city Detroit is remarkably aligned with the foundation's mission of helping kids and families succeed in some of the poorest corners of the U.S. Among other things, under Tabron's leadership at Kellogg, the foundation has doubled down on its prescient — and bold — racial equity work.

For over 50 years, regardless of the political environment or changes in the economy, GLIDE has stood with the most vulnerable, including poor people, those with illness, people of color, immigrants, as well as all families and children fleeing war and oppression.

For nearly a century, Catholic Charities has helped poor and neglected children (whether Catholic or not) to find homes with loving families ready to nurture them.

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The New Yorker Book of Kids» Cartoons (2001) features only three cartoons with families of more than two children — one a family of fish, another of cats, and a third an obviously poor, white, working - class family.

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.

Children of single - parent families are far more likely even when they are not poor to do badly in school, get in trouble with the law, have poor mental and physical health, and have marital difficulties later in life.

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.

With older children father involvement is inversely related to family size and poor school performance.

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.

And, he points to one program that simply injected cash — $ 3,000 — to poor families with infants and toddlers, which relieved enough stress on parents to improve their children's chances dramatically.

I think it is important to point out that this isn't just an issue for middle class families who care deeply about their child's diet and are able to provide abundant healthy food choices but school menus have great impact on many, many poor children who, through no fault of their own and often with no agency to change the situation, end up being pawns in the lunch tray wars.

• 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).

Given that poor communication skills are strongly correlated with violent behaviour in men, it seems likely that a father with poor language skills will be more likely to act violently towards both his partner and his children; or for family interactions to be less productive and pleasant.

In experiments with families at high risk for poor child outcomes, researchers randomly assigned some mothers to receive training in responsive parenting techniques.

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.

Programs that are successful with families at increased risk for poor child development outcomes tend to be programs that offer a comprehensive focus — targeting families» multiple needs — and therefore may be more expensive to develop, implement, and maintain.

If not, consider that many families who had a poor outcome with a midwife have become bankrupt and have to rely on Medicaid and other forms of assistance to care for their child.

For working - class and poor families, the cultural logic of child rearing at home is out of synch with the standards of institutions.»

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.

The freeze will hit the poorest third in society the hardest and cause working families with children lose as much as # 490 a year in child benefit and tax credits.

Child trust funds, worth # 250 to every new baby, would be limited to the poorest third of families and those with disabled children.»

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.

A review of the child's diet revealed poor family nutritional habits with uncontrolled counting of calories and fat.

Low - income families are defined as those with incomes less than two times the Federal Poverty Threshold (about $ 47,000 for a family of four with two children) and poor families are defined as those with incomes below the threshold (about $ 24,000 for a family of four with two children).

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

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

«While reforms like No Child Left Behind empower local communities with valuable information, this information is not enough to mobilize poor families, thus leaving behind the group that No Child Left Behind explicitly sought to help,» Holbein said.

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).

NCCP defines a poor household as one where incomes are below the federal poverty threshold (i.e., $ 24,036 for a family of four with two children in 2015).

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.

Families with earnings less than twice the poverty threshold are considered low income and include poor families (i.e., $ 48,072 for a family of four with two children iFamilies with earnings less than twice the poverty threshold are considered low income and include poor families (i.e., $ 48,072 for a family of four with two children ifamilies (i.e., $ 48,072 for a family of four with two children in 2015).

A family is considered poor if its earnings are below 100 percent of the poverty threshold (e.g., $ 24,008 for a family of four with two children in 2014).

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 University.