poverty

Articles related to child and family poverty by some of the world’s top child and family researchers.

Research on child and family poverty looks at the impact of poverty on children’s learning, social development and mental health. Neuroscientists are looking at the impact of poverty on the child’s brain. How best to support families living in poverty, including families with different structures? How can education counter the effects of poverty on children?

Stuart Brown

Play deprivation can damage early child development

22nd September 2018

Long-term impacts of play deprivation during early child development include isolation, depression, reduced self-control and poor resilience.

Professor Natasha J. Cabrera

Pay and play: to enhance early childhood development, fathers should do both

August 2018

Bilingualism supports child cognitive development, particularly in poor children

June 2018

Professor Michael E. Lamb

Policy should reflect fathers’ impact on child development

May 2018

Growing family income gap in US linked to increasing gap in children’s completed education

December 2017

An orderly home and parental supervision predict better social and emotional outcomes for children in low-income families

November 2017

When African American fathers discipline their three-year-old sons more, the boys do better in math tests

November 2017

A poor neighborhood holds back children’s cognitive development

October 2017

Professor Natasha J. Cabrera

Mom – and parenting policy – can learn from Dad

September 2017

For poor children in USA and UK, a good education is not a sure pathway out of poverty

August 2017