HD FS 315Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 34: Twinkie, Prenatal Care, Apache Hadoop
17 Nov 2016
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Premise: best way to help poor children is through: Affordable health care: a) prenatal care, b) early intervention of childhood illness, c) affordable health insurance. Expand: wic, food stamps, school lunch programs. Eliminate food deserts : places with no grocery stores within certain distances. Very far: 2) improve educational experiences of children. Kids need parents who sit with them: read books to them. Five/limited number of textbooks: results in: Criticisms: 1) treats the symptoms of poverty, not the causes, 2) cooperation of parents needed or these interventions to be successful. 3 topics: exchange across households, grandparenthood, caregiving. 4 demographic changes that have fundamentally altered family ties across generations: 1) changes in mortality, 2) changes in fertility, 3) extension of young adulthood, 4) growing diversity in family structure. The average number of years a person can expect to live from a given age. The probability of surviving from one year to the next: example:
