A more comprehensive model of poverty’s impact would improve childhood interventions and understanding of how disadvantage affects lives.
Willem E. FrankenhuisOctober 2020
Articles on inequality from some of the world’s top child and family researchers.
Tackling inequality between children is a big area of child and family research at the moment. Research looks at the many factors that can contribute to gender, social, racial and childhood inequality – immigrant status, poverty, public health, neighbourhoods, unstable families. And what can address the impacts of inequality?
Breaking the cycles of bias and violence starts at home by talking to children about racism rather than well-meaning adults avoiding the subject.
Diane L. HughesJune 2020
Research from 16,652 individuals shows that divorce affects not only children’s ability to earn but reduces their wealth by 46% on average.
Child & Family Blog EditorMay 2020
Greater father involvement has been found to be linked with academic performance at school. This was true for all socioeconomic groups.
Child & Family Blog EditorMay 2020
Emotionally supportive parenting can help disadvantaged children and has been shown to have long-term positive impact.
Xutong ZhangApril 2020
Sharing care of children within a community buffers children against differences in parenting between families.
Child & Family Blog EditorFebruary 2020
According to the World Health Organisation, children will suffer 80% of the illnesses, injuries and deaths attributable to climate change.
Child & Family Blog EditorOctober 2019
