How Poverty Effects Children
Makayla Ray
University of Alabama in Birmingham
Abstract
This literature review purpose is to focus on how poverty affects children. This is a summary of a collection of published research articles that all focused on the specific areas. This is a complex issue that is not fully understood yet. The themes included in this review are parental effects, educational outcomes, health concerns, developmental, and how living in poverty impacted them.
Impact on Parenting
A paper discussing these effects (McLeod and Shanahan, 1993) concluded two items: that families with histories of poverty influence children’s mental health much more than the effects of current poverty, and that the body of …show more content…
In another paper (Kaiser and Delaney, 1996) four groups of parenting mediation factors were discussed as closely related to affecting the outcomes of children in poverty. The logical conclusion and recommendation, is to focus efforts, programs and funding on those factors most easily changed, rather than those most difficult to change.
Many researchers have tried to discover the various impacts poverty has on children in all aspects of their lives. The point of this literature review was to learn about the impacts on development, education, health, and parenting, which were frequently cited effects of children living in poverty. Many studies have shown that children did not develop as effectively when living in low socio-economic homes. Delayed development stunts their future academic growth and makes it more difficult to catch up in …show more content…
It concluded that there was a significant difference on the effect of persistence of poverty over time was higher in African American children than any other race. Since it focused of the impacts of poverty on Turkish children (Ozkan, 2010), the topics of health, cognitive development, stress, and parenting, concluding that this issue is global since it also affects children in Turkey. It was recommended that more extensive research be done have a better understanding of the issues and its impacting factors.
Bronfenbrenner’s model was used to explain the adverse effects of poverty on the social emotional development of the children (Eamon, 2001). Eamon discussed the five structures of ecological environment in her paper, concluding that the results of poverty upon child development are well described by applying these classic analytical structures. Using a different structure than Bronfenbrenner to analyze available data (Wadsworth, Raviv, Reinhard, Wolff, Santiago and Einhorn), but with more analytical calculations included, reached that same conclusion as McLeod and Nonemaker,
Makayla Ray
University of Alabama in Birmingham
Abstract
This literature review purpose is to focus on how poverty affects children. This is a summary of a collection of published research articles that all focused on the specific areas. This is a complex issue that is not fully understood yet. The themes included in this review are parental effects, educational outcomes, health concerns, developmental, and how living in poverty impacted them.
Impact on Parenting
A paper discussing these effects (McLeod and Shanahan, 1993) concluded two items: that families with histories of poverty influence children’s mental health much more than the effects of current poverty, and that the body of …show more content…
In another paper (Kaiser and Delaney, 1996) four groups of parenting mediation factors were discussed as closely related to affecting the outcomes of children in poverty. The logical conclusion and recommendation, is to focus efforts, programs and funding on those factors most easily changed, rather than those most difficult to change.
Many researchers have tried to discover the various impacts poverty has on children in all aspects of their lives. The point of this literature review was to learn about the impacts on development, education, health, and parenting, which were frequently cited effects of children living in poverty. Many studies have shown that children did not develop as effectively when living in low socio-economic homes. Delayed development stunts their future academic growth and makes it more difficult to catch up in …show more content…
It concluded that there was a significant difference on the effect of persistence of poverty over time was higher in African American children than any other race. Since it focused of the impacts of poverty on Turkish children (Ozkan, 2010), the topics of health, cognitive development, stress, and parenting, concluding that this issue is global since it also affects children in Turkey. It was recommended that more extensive research be done have a better understanding of the issues and its impacting factors.
Bronfenbrenner’s model was used to explain the adverse effects of poverty on the social emotional development of the children (Eamon, 2001). Eamon discussed the five structures of ecological environment in her paper, concluding that the results of poverty upon child development are well described by applying these classic analytical structures. Using a different structure than Bronfenbrenner to analyze available data (Wadsworth, Raviv, Reinhard, Wolff, Santiago and Einhorn), but with more analytical calculations included, reached that same conclusion as McLeod and Nonemaker,