Lifestyle Behaviors and Parents’ Mental Well-Being Among Low-Income Families During COVID-19 Pandemic

2022 ◽  
Vol Publish Ahead of Print ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorraine B. Robbins ◽  
Jiying Ling
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Lifestyle Behaviors ◽  
Low Income Families ◽  
Mental Well Being

scholarly journals “You run out of hope:” An Exploration of Low-Income Parents’ Experiences with Food Insecurity using Photovoice

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Payge Lindow ◽  
Irene H. Yen ◽  
Mingyu Xiao ◽  
Cindy W. Leung
Keyword(s):  
Food Insecurity ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Eating Behaviors ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Unhealthy Eating ◽  
Low Income Families ◽  
The Impact

ABSTRACT Objective: Using an adaption of the Photovoice method, this study explored how food insecurity affected parents’ ability to provide food for their family, their strategies for managing household food insecurity, and the impact of food insecurity on their well-being. Design: Parents submitted photos around their families’ experiences with food insecurity. Afterwards, they completed in-depth, semi-structured interviews about their photos. The interviews were transcribed and analyzed for thematic content using the constant comparative method. Setting: San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA. Subjects: 17 parents (14 mothers and 3 fathers) were recruited from a broader qualitative study on understanding the experiences of food insecurity in low-income families. Results: Four themes were identified from the parents’ photos and interviews. First, parents described multiple aspects of their food environment that promoted unhealthy eating behaviors. Second, parents shared strategies they employed to acquire food with limited resources. Third, parents expressed feelings of shame, guilt, and distress resulting from their experience of food insecurity. And finally, parents described treating their children to special foods to cultivate a sense of normalcy. Conclusions: Parents highlighted the external contributors and internal struggles of their experiences of food insecurity. Additional research to understand the experiences of the food-insecure families may help to improve nutrition interventions targeting this structurally vulnerable population.

Research watch: Coronavirus (COVID-19), mental health and social inclusion in the UK and Ireland

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 117-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sue Holttum
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Anxiety And Depression ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Mental Well Being

Purpose This paper aims to examine recent papers on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health, including implications for some of the groups of people already less included in society. Design/methodology/approach A search was carried out for recent papers on mental health and the COVID-19 pandemic. Findings Two papers describe surveys of adults in the UK and Irish Republic in the first days of lockdown. Low income and loss of income were associated with anxiety and depression. These surveys could not examine distress in Black and minority ethnicities, who have higher death rates from COVID-19. Two surveys of children and young people report distress and what can help. One paper summarises a host of ways in which the pandemic may affect mental well-being in different groups, and what might help. Another calls for research to understand how to protect mental well-being in various groups. Originality/value These five papers give a sense of the early days of the pandemic, especially in the UK. They also highlight the needs of some specific groups of people, or the need to find out more about how these groups experience the pandemic. They suggest some ways of trying to ensure that everyone has the best chance to thrive in the aftermath of the pandemic.

Hard Times and Harder Minds: Material Hardship and Marital Well-Being Among Low-Income Families in South Korea

2016 ◽  
Vol 38 (18) ◽  
pp. 2545-2566 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joyce Shim ◽  
RaeHyuck Lee ◽  
Jaeseung Kim
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Panel Study ◽  
Married Couples ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Material Hardship ◽  
Spousal Relationship ◽  
Low Income Families ◽  
Household Heads

Experiencing material hardship may bring various negative consequences for married couples and family members. However, little is known about this topic in Korea. Using a nationally representative sample from the Korean Welfare Panel Study, we examined how material hardship was associated with marital well-being among low-income families in Korea, separately for husbands (i.e., male household heads) and wives. Overall, we found experiencing any material hardship was associated with lower levels of satisfaction of both family life and spousal relationship, consistently for husbands and wives. We also found depression and self-esteem partially mediated the associations in both groups. Furthermore, among individual items of material hardship, experiencing food hardship was associated with lower levels of satisfaction of family life for both husbands and wives, whereas experiencing problems with credit was associated with lower levels of satisfaction of both family life and spousal relationship for wives but not for husbands.

scholarly journals Public Policies, Women's Employment after Childbearing, and Child Well-Being

2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Washbrook ◽  
Christopher J Ruhm ◽  
Jane Waldfogel ◽  
Wen-Jui Han
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Parental Leave ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Work Participation ◽  
Child Care Subsidies ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Work Requirements ◽  
Maternal Work ◽  
Low Income Families

Abstract In this paper, we consider three U.S. public policies that potentially influence the work decisions of mothers of infants—parental leave laws, exemptions from welfare work requirements, and child care subsidies for low-income families. We estimate the effects of these policies on the timing of work participation after birth, and on a range of outcomes in the subsequent four years, using a group difference-in-difference technique suitable for analysis of cross-sectional data. We find that the three policies affect early maternal work participation, but obtain no evidence of significant consequences for child well-being.

scholarly journals Connecting with home, keeping in touch: physical and virtual mobility across stretched families in sub-Saharan Africa

Africa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 88 (2) ◽  
pp. 404-424 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gina Porter ◽  
Kate Hampshire ◽  
Albert Abane ◽  
Alister Munthali ◽  
Elsbeth Robson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Mixed Methods Research ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Urban Neighbourhoods ◽  
Virtual Mobility ◽  
History Of ◽  
Low Income Families ◽  
Sub Saharan

AbstractThere is a long history of migration among low-income families in sub-Saharan Africa, in which (usually young, often male) members leave home to seek their fortune in what are perceived to be more favourable locations. While the physical and virtual mobility practices of such stretched families are often complex and contingent, maintaining contact with distantly located close kin is frequently of crucial importance for the maintenance of emotional (and possibly material) well-being, both for those who have left home and for those who remain. This article explores the ways in which these connections are being reshaped by increasing access to mobile phones in three sub-Saharan countries – Ghana, Malawi and South Africa – drawing on interdisciplinary, mixed-methods research from twenty-four sites, ranging from poor urban neighbourhoods to remote rural hamlets. Stories collected from both ends of stretched families present a world in which the connectivities now offered by the mobile phone bring a different kind of closeness and knowing, as instant sociality introduces a potential substitute for letters, cassettes and face-to-face visits, while the rapid resource mobilization opportunities identified by those still at home impose increasing pressures on migrant kin.

Social policy of the regions: Reducing poverty among families with children and stimulating fertility

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (10) ◽  
pp. 1869-1893
Author(s):  
L.P. Koroleva
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Federal Budget ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Lump Sum ◽  
Federal Subsidies ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Low Income Families ◽  
Families With Children

Subject. This article analyzes the differentiation of the subjects of the Russian Federation in terms of fertility and material well-being of average-revenue families with children, and considers maternal capital as a regions' social policy aspect. Objectives. The article intends to justify the priorities of the Russian Federation subjects' social policy in the context of the expansion of federal subsidies for multiple-child families, based on an analysis of the relationship between the well-being of families and fertility. It also aims to develop general recommendations for groups of actors to improve social policy in the face of budgetary constraints. Methods. For the study, I used general scientific, economics and statistics methods of research. Results. Combining the subjects of the Russian Federation in eight clusters, close in birth rate and material well-being of families, the article offers general recommendations on the choice of priorities of regional social policy. The article shows that maternal capital gets transformed into a lump-sum benefit to support the current revenues of low-income families. Conclusions. To secure demographic increase, maternal capital must be paid from the Federal budget at the birth (adoption) of each child in the family without additional conditions, regardless of the region of residence. The eradication of poverty among families with children and support for multi-child parenting should be key priorities of the social policy of the regions.

When Working Harder Does Not Pay: Low-Income Working Families, Tax Liabilities, and Benefit Reductions

2007 ◽  
Vol 88 (3) ◽  
pp. 418-426 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer L. Romich ◽  
Jennifer Simmelink ◽  
Stephen D. Holt
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Working Poor ◽  
Tax Rates ◽  
Tax System ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
Working Families ◽  
Low Income Families ◽  
Implicit Taxation

Under some circumstances, recent reforms to policies that affect the working poor create a barrier to workers who try to increase their families' financial well-being through greater earnings. As earnings rise, benefits are reduced and taxes increase. Together these two factors may mean that accepting a raise or working more hours may not make a worker's family better off financially. This article presents an analysis of the extent of implicit taxation and describes how low-wage workers experience this phenomenon. We address three areas: how benefit programs and the tax system together create high combined tax rates, the implications of this system for low-income families' well-being, and finally, suggestions for practice and reform.

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