Child Poverty: Fewer Children in Poverty: Is it a Public Priority?

2014 ◽  
pp. 163-172
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Clery
Keyword(s):  
Child Poverty ◽  
Children In Poverty ◽  
Public Priority

scholarly journals Has Budget 2015 solved child poverty?

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Russell Wills
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Child Poverty ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Children In Poverty ◽  
Policy Analysts ◽  
Election Victory ◽  
New Zealanders

The New Zealand public spoke and the pollsters listened: child poverty consistently ranks among the top concerns of New Zealanders  (Levine, 2014). And the prime minister listened too. In September 2014, after securing a healthy election victory, he proclaimed that he was going to step  in and tackle child poverty (Fox, 2014). The policy analysts  in a range of government agencies were set a task: come up with a package for Budget 2015 that helps children in poverty, that doesn’t cost too much and that won’t reduce the incentive to work. This article will demonstrate that the policy analysts did the best they could with the brief they were given. 

Determinants of child resilience in poverty: findings from the Taiwan Birth Cohort Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (Supplement_5) ◽  
Author(s):  
L Chiang ◽  
C J Wang ◽  
T L Chiang
Keyword(s):  
Cohort Study ◽  
Child Poverty ◽  
Good Health ◽  
Birth Cohort Study ◽  
Children In Poverty ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Child Interaction ◽  
Taiwan Birth Cohort Study ◽  
Child Resilience ◽  
Parent Child

Abstract Background Poverty has adverse effects on child health. While children in poverty face greater health challenges, some still achieve positive health outcomes. This is in part due to their resilience when facing adversity. Identifying the factors that foster child resilience can aid in developing strategies to promote child resilience and reduce the harmful effects of child poverty. This study aims to identify the biological and social factors of resilience among children in poverty from birth to age 12. Methods Data for the analysis came from the Taiwan Birth Cohort Study, a nationally representative sample of 17,354 children who completed six waves of interview surveys between 2005 and 2017. Our sample included 4,570 children who experienced poverty from birth to age 12. The primary outcome variable was child resilience, defined as impoverished children who maintained good health outcomes over the 12-year survey period. Multiple logistic regression was used to examine the factors of child resilience. Results Of the 4,570 children, 36.1% always had good health despite experiencing poverty before the age of 12. An easy temperament (OR = 2.5, 95% CI: 1.9-3.0), female (OR = 1.1, 95% CI: 1.0-1.3), a birth weight greater than 2,500 grams (OR = 1.6, 95% CI: 1.2-2.1), having a foreign-born mother (OR = 1.5, 95% CI: 1.2-1.7), receiving breast milk after birth (OR = 1.3, 95% CI: 1.1-1.5), and good parent-child interaction at 3 years of age (OR = 1.4, 95% CI: 1.2-1.7) were associated with child resilience. Early parent-child interactions can moderate the effect of children's birth weight on later resilience. Conclusions Our findings indicated the factors associated with child resilience in the context of poverty, suggesting that supporting breastfeeding and nurturing parent-child relationships are effective public health actions to foster child resilience. Future research is needed to unravel the underlying mechanisms of biological factors associated with child resilience. Key messages Breastfeeding after birth and high-quality parent-child interaction can lead to positive adaptations to child poverty. Children with difficult temperaments, boys and those born at low birthweight are more vulnerable to poverty and should be targeted for building resilience against poverty.

Pre-school practitioners, child poverty and social justice

2015 ◽  
Vol 35 (5/6) ◽  
pp. 325-339 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald Simpson ◽  
Eunice Lumsden ◽  
Rory McDowall Clark
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Child Poverty ◽  
Content Type ◽  
School Services ◽  
Children In Poverty ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
First Child ◽  
Neoliberal Ideology ◽  
Education And Care ◽  
School Practitioners

Purpose – Several ideas exist about social justice and how inequalities can be tackled to help families and children in poverty. The Coalition government released the UK’s first Child Poverty Strategy in 2011. Pervaded by neoliberal ideology, the strategy mentions “empowering” pre-school services and practitioners within the childcare market “to do more for the most disadvantaged” (Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and Department for Education (DfE) 2011, p. 35). The purpose of this paper is to bring to light how Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) practitioners across England have engaged with policy discussions and adopted expectations concerning their place in addressing child poverty. Design/methodology/approach – Using a phenomenological qualitative research design the paper draws upon 30 interviews with pre-school practitioners in three geographic areas of England. All interviewees worked with families and children in poverty and were senior ECEC practitioners within their pre-school settings. Findings – Many interviewees shared the Coalition’s construction of child poverty as a problem of “troubled” parenting. These views pervaded their interaction with parents and intersected with the regulatory influence of “policy technologies” to influence their practice within a context of austerity cuts. This limited practitioners’ poverty sensitivity and their promotion of social justice. Therefore this paper concludes by critiquing the contribution which ECEC practitioners can make to addressing child poverty. Practical implications – The findings suggest there may be a need for poverty proofing toolkits in the pre-school sector. Originality/value – This paper provides a rare insight into how pre-school practitioners have engaged with, adopted and adapted assumptions about their role within policy discussion over child poverty and the promotion of social justice.

Protective Factors for School Readiness Among Children in Poverty

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew R. Holliday ◽  
Adriana Cimetta ◽  
Christina A. Cutshaw ◽  
Ronald W. Marx ◽  
David Yaden
Keyword(s):  
Protective Factors ◽  
School Readiness ◽  
Children In Poverty

Section 4.a Introduction

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvia PIZZOCARO ◽  
Pınar KAYGAN ◽  
HARMAN Kerry ◽  
Erik BOHEMIA
Keyword(s):  
Social Problems ◽  
Elderly Care ◽  
Child Poverty ◽  
Design Methods ◽  
Innovative Solutions ◽  
Design Council

Co-design is a process in which designers and users collaborate as ‘equals’ to develop innovative solutions. Co-design methods are increasingly used by professional designers to facilitate and enable users to co-develop innovative solutions for ‘themselves’. For example, the Design Council is advocating the use of co-design methods to support the development of practical innovative solutions to social problems such as increased cost of elderly care and tackling child poverty. The involvement of users in developing solutions acknowledges that their take up is dependent on the ways users create and negotiate meanings of objects and services.

On Major Conceptual Shifts within Research on Child Well-Being in Estonia

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (2-2020) ◽  
pp. 174-184
Author(s):  
Dagmar Kutsar
Keyword(s):  
Social Issue ◽  
Child Poverty ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Social ◽  
Children And Childhood ◽  
International Comparative

The aim of this paper is to highlight major shifts in research regarding children and childhood as a narrative of the author. It starts from presenting a retrospective of child poverty research in Estonia, and it is demonstrated how it has developed from the social and political acknowledgement of poverty as a social issue in the early 1990s. Then it revisits main shifts in theory and methodology of childhood research and reaches international comparative approaches to child subjective and relational well-being.

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