Child Well-Being
“The Role of Parent-Child Verbal Interaction in Language and Literacy Development”
This research brief gives an overview of studies on vocabulary development and the role of parents’ verbal interaction in early literacy.
There are 15.5 million (one in five) children living in poverty, and, when there is a recession, they and their families are often the most vulnerable in terms of health, food security, housing stability and maltreatment. A new report from the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia found that being poor for even a short period of time can have lasting health implications for children.
Infants of Depressed Mothers Living in Poverty: Opportunities to Identify and Serve
A study from the Urban Institute looks at incidence of depression in low-income mothers and its impact on parenting and child development. ”A mom who is too sad to get up in the morning won’t be able to take care of all of her child’s practical needs,” researcher Olivia Golden, who co-authored the paper with two colleagues at the Washington-based Urban Institute, told The Washington Post. “If she is not able to take joy in her child, talk baby talk, play with the child – those are features of parenting that brain development research has told us contribute to babies’ and toddlers’ successful development.”
Overall improvements in child well-being that began in the late 1990s stalled in the years just before the current economic downturn. The 21st-annual data book includes national data and state-by-state data and rankings on 10 key indicators of child well-being.
Minority Children Face More Obstacles to Success
Minority children and teenagers have fewer opportunities than white counterparts to be healthy, obtain a quality education and achieve economic success, according to a national survey of adults whose jobs involve children’s education, health and economic well-being. The groundbreaking poll was released by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, which sought to gauge the level of disparities affecting children of color.
The Consequences of Child Povery
Childhood poverty can have significant detrimental effects on cognitive development and success later when those children enter adulthood, according to this study using recent data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics.
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