CYC 702 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Critical Consciousness, Anomie, Child Care
13 Oct 2016
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Chapter 2: environmental/societal factors that contribute to risk. Major exo-systemic influence in children"s lives: poverty effects working poor families, vulnerable and underserved families, young single-mother families, homeless families. Risk factor most closely associated with family stress, and highly correlated with school failure, delinquency, and other problems. Children of colour are more likely to grow up in low-income families. Rural child poverty is higher than urban. Some parents both have to work their ass off just to not be in the level of poverty, and it stresses the kids. Parents with financial stress are more tense, irritable, and explosive and become arbitrary and punitive in child discipline* Over 40% of white children and nearly 70% of black children who are poor at birth will spend at least half their lives in poverty. Young female headed families are at the greatest risk of poverty* Lack of prenatal care influences the child"s future health, well-being and learning ability.
