Pub Date : 2017-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10796126.2016.1163666
Gary W. Reinbold
ABSTRACT This study is the first to use the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) to reexamine the relationships between long-term economic well-being and child outcomes. We decompose the differences between the Official Poverty Measure (OPM) and the SPM and examine such relationships with 15 cognitive, physical, and social–emotional outcomes for 754 ten- to nineteen-year-olds as reported in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) 2007 Child Development Supplement. Using PSID data from 1998 to 2006, we measure long-term economic well-being using the average natural logarithm of the ratio of family resources to the poverty threshold with a series of models, beginning with the OPM and converting it step-by-step into the SPM. We find that some steps in constructing the SPM, especially including in-kind benefits and using the SPM thresholds, weaken the relationships between our economic well-being measure and the cognitive outcomes, although including in-kind benefits strengthens the relationships with many of the physical and social–emotional outcomes. Better understanding the relationships between different poverty measures and outcomes of interest can open new avenues for research on mitigating the adverse effects of poverty and could perhaps allow us to better target interventions to individuals who are at greatest risk for adverse outcomes.
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Pub Date : 2017-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10796126.2016.1187587
A. Thompson, Heather Klemp, Anne E. Stinson
ABSTRACT The paper reports findings of two quasi-experimental, propensity score matched (PSM) studies on the effects of Imagination Library (IL). IL is a community book-distribution program targeting improved caregiver–child literacy interactions, which are hypothesized to lead to increased school readiness – consisting of improved emergent literacy skills and social-emotional school readiness. In Study One, interviews were used to examine proximal increases in the quality of child–caregiver literacy interactions with 112 PSM families (IL = 56; non-IL = 56). Small effects were observed in Study One favoring IL families on reading interactions (d = .043). In Study Two, 378 PSM kindergarten students (IL = 189; non-IL = 189) were compared with regard to standardized tests of emergent literacy skills and social-emotional school readiness – distal outcomes of IL. No effects were observed in Study Two. Taken together, these two studies run counter to prior reports on the effects of IL and suggest that more must be done to improve emergent literacy and school readiness beyond simply providing free books.
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Pub Date : 2017-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10796126.2017.1282443
Stephen Kotok
tices jeopardized the stability of their employment. The latter sections of the book focus on theoretical conclusions and implications for policy and practice, such as the significant impact caring adults can have on adolescent development. The authors also detail culturally-based practices that should replace harmful discipline and encourage youth to solve problems and gain respect without using violence. Together, the youths’ stories and these recommendations will motivate readers to recommit to confronting inequality and injustice.
{"title":"When the fences come down: twenty-first-century lessons from metropolitan school desegregation","authors":"Stephen Kotok","doi":"10.1080/10796126.2017.1282443","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10796126.2017.1282443","url":null,"abstract":"tices jeopardized the stability of their employment. The latter sections of the book focus on theoretical conclusions and implications for policy and practice, such as the significant impact caring adults can have on adolescent development. The authors also detail culturally-based practices that should replace harmful discipline and encourage youth to solve problems and gain respect without using violence. Together, the youths’ stories and these recommendations will motivate readers to recommit to confronting inequality and injustice.","PeriodicalId":35244,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Children and Poverty","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10796126.2017.1282443","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43897016","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10796126.2016.1271775
A. Little
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Pub Date : 2017-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10796126.2016.1254601
A. Markus, Shannon Krohe, Nicole Garro, M. Gerstein, C. Pellegrini
ABSTRACT Reducing the number of preterm births is a high public health priority in the U.S. Preterm birth, affecting an estimated 380,000 infants annually, is a leading cause of infant mortality and morbidity and is associated with individual and systemic characteristics. Preterm birth is estimated to cost society $26 billion annually. Despite an elevated financial burden caused by preterm birth, very little is known about who bears these costs. This study seeks to understand the relationship between Medicaid and private insurance payment for preterm birth, using multiple years of vital statistics data, which for the first time since 2010 include information on payment source. The nationwide data cover births that occur in all settings, including non-hospital settings, and many maternal characteristics not available in other datasets, improving upon previous analyses. These data can be used to promote better Medicaid coverage of interventions known to be effective in reducing preterm births.
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Pub Date : 2017-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10796126.2016.1247347
S. Deck
ABSTRACT Some definitions of child homelessness include the category of children who are doubled-up with others due to loss of housing or economic hardship, while others do not. Are doubled-up children more like children in shelters or children who are poor but housed? A quasi-experimental comparison group design was used to test empirically for differences in school mobility, school attendance, and reading and mathematics achievement among three groups of sheltered, doubled-up, and poor, housed children, respectively, with each group containing 49 students. Sheltered students were found to have significantly higher levels of school mobility and significantly lower rates of school attendance than students in the other two groups. An elaboration of the continuum of risk model is proposed to differentiate experiences of sheltered and doubled-up students. Recommendations are made for policy responses as well as future research.
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Pub Date : 2017-01-01Epub Date: 2017-06-05DOI: 10.1080/10796126.2017.1336705
Richard C Sadler, Don J Lafreniere
Many of the challenges that affect children living in poverty are directly related to the neighborhoods in which they live. Places that inhibit healthy living and those that expose children to environmental pollution tend to more heavily affect children in poverty. This environmental injustice is a natural concern of the fields of urban planning, geography, and children's health. Yet many decisions that affect opportunities for healthy living are made without a full understanding of how neighborhood context influences such opportunities. In this brief, we paint inequalities in child health outcomes as a spatial problem, review some of the geospatial tools used by urban planners and geographers, discuss common reasons for misclassification or misrepresentation of spatially explicit problems, and propose more suitable methods for measuring opportunities and exposures germane to the field of child poverty. Throughout, we emphasize the need for evidence-driven, spatially grounded responses to child poverty issues with a spatial dimension.
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Pub Date : 2017-01-01Epub Date: 2016-07-03DOI: 10.1080/10796126.2016.1198753
J J Cutuli, Sandra M Ahumada, Janette E Herbers, Theresa L Lafavor, Ann S Masten, Charles N Oberg
This study tests links between adversity and health problems among children in family emergency housing. Children who experience family homelessness are at risk to also experience high levels of stress, health problems, and need for pediatric care. Understanding the connection between stress and health holds the potential to reduce persistent health disparities. Analyses tested whether experiencing a greater number of stressful life events during the early years of life was related to worse health conditions, emergency health care utilization, and hospitalizations. Parents noted children's experience of negative stressful life events, health problems, emergency room (ER) use, and hospitalization. Two cohorts of kindergarten-aged children staying in emergency family housing participated in the study in 2006-07 (n = 104) and in 2008-09 (n = 138), with the results examined separately. In both cohorts, more health problems were acknowledged for children exposed to more negative stressful life events. Stressful life events were not related to ER use but did relate to hospitalization for the 2006-07 cohort. Results affirm links between stress in early childhood and health problems among children living in emergency housing. Findings are consistent with the hypothesis that adversity in early childhood contributes to income and racial disparities in health.
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Pub Date : 2017-01-01DOI: 10.1080/10796126.2017.1281796
J. Sharkey
violent relationships, devastating addictions, and sudden unemployment. Instability can seem like the only constant as families move from place to place. While major traumatic events are recalled in vivid detail, the author’s descriptions of physical surroundings and the minutiae of lives in transition are just as compelling: a sign on the bulletproof partition of a Nashville motel lobby that reads, ‘Anyone evicted will have their things thrown away’; a multiple-hour trip across Fairfax commuter traffic to sell a $140 watch for $60 to pay for another night in a motel; a family struggling to keep their bodies and possessions clean and maintain dignity while living in their car in Portland. Much of the historical narrative focuses on how beliefs about the poor have shaped their treatment. Consistently, from the colonial era to the present day, taxpayers have been concerned about their money supporting the ‘idle’, now mostly anonymous, poor. While most of the professionals interviewed about the latest such subsidy – rapid-rehousing programs – find it promising (and results have been encouraging in Fairfax, Portland, and Trenton among other cities), the programs are often difficult to implement because they are perceived as rewarding poor decision-making. Schweid argues that, in fact, more generous housing programs have been shown to be the least expensive and the most effective option over the long term, and that progress can ensue only when we get past the ideological decision-making that has persisted around this issue. While interviews with families and descriptions of their surroundings drive the narrative, Invisible Nation is also an excellent introduction to the topic of American social welfare history. Readers who are well-versed in this topic may find themselves hurrying through explanations of familiar events and trends, though the author rounds these out with interesting details from some primary and older secondary sources. Invisible Nation exemplifies the relevance of history to social science research and policymaking and would be most useful in social welfare history courses aimed at students of social work, policy, and other practical disciplines.
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Pub Date : 2016-07-02DOI: 10.1080/10796126.2016.1209166
Vikki C. Terrile
ABSTRACT While public libraries are often used by people experiencing homelessness, the value of libraries for homeless children and families has been understudied. This brief explores how public libraries can support families experiencing homelessness and how they can engage with other service providers and agencies as part of a collective impact model to support a wide array of families’ needs. Since homelessness is the result of many interconnected social and economic conditions, this paper also examines how awareness and a lack of knowledge of these factors can impact service delivery and expectations. Finally, a case study of how the Queens Library in New York City engages with family shelters to support children’s learning and exploration is included to provide best practice examples.
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