SOC 201 Chapter 13: Chapter 13.5
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Health: parental class position has long-term health consequences for children. In general, mortality (death) rates and morbidity (sickness) rates are negatively related to social class. For example, studies have demonstrated that poverty is related to delays in children"s physical development. Poor children are also more likely to suffer from serious psychological distress: education: parental income has an effect on whether children finish high school and attend and graduate from college. Poverty has an especially strong impact on very young children. In 1986, for example, only about 25 percent of poor children were enrolled in a preschool program, compared to 40 percent of children from more affluent families. Children who did not attend preschool have fewer skills (color identification, counting, etc. Growing up in poor families reduces men"s annual earnings by more than 40 percent: crime and justice: poor people are more likely to be victims of all kinds of crime.
