Eight Family income as a protective factor for child outcomes
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Ilan Katz
Abstract
This chapter observes that children from materially deprived backgrounds often have poorer developmental outcomes than those from high-income families, little research has examined exactly what it is about poor families that link to inadequate parenting, and there is a need to look at other points in the income distribution to bring these factors to light. It finds that high incomes, but not median or low incomes, seem to be a protective factor for children who score lowly on developmental outcome tests between the ages of four and five, based on a study of Australian children. It notes that this research carries with it significant implications — that there is an urgent need for families who have children with developmental needs to receive significant material resources for those children to develop to their full potential.
Abstract
This chapter observes that children from materially deprived backgrounds often have poorer developmental outcomes than those from high-income families, little research has examined exactly what it is about poor families that link to inadequate parenting, and there is a need to look at other points in the income distribution to bring these factors to light. It finds that high incomes, but not median or low incomes, seem to be a protective factor for children who score lowly on developmental outcome tests between the ages of four and five, based on a study of Australian children. It notes that this research carries with it significant implications — that there is an urgent need for families who have children with developmental needs to receive significant material resources for those children to develop to their full potential.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front Matter i
- Contents iii
- List of tables and figures v
- List of contributors vii
- Overview 1
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Tackling Beveridge’s ‘five evils’, 60 years on
- Freedom from want: 60 years on 11
- Slaying idleness without killing care: a challenge for the British welfare state 29
- Tackling ignorance, promoting social mobility: education policy 1948 and 2008 49
- Beveridge’s giant of disease: from negative to positive welfare? 67
- Tackling squalor? Housing’s contribution to the welfare state 87
- The Poor Law Commission of 1905–09: a view from a century on 109
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Contemporary childcare policy
- Intercountry adoption in Europe 1998–2007: patterns, trends and issues 133
- Family income as a protective factor for child outcomes 167
- Managing shared residence in Britain and France: questioning a default ‘primary carer’ model 197
- Strategic challenges in child welfare services: a comparative study of Australia, England and Sweden 215
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Rescaling social policy
- Governance at a distance? The turn to the local in UK social policy 245
- Spatial rescaling, devolution and the future of social welfare 267
- Rescaling emergent social policies in South East Europe 283
- Index 307
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front Matter i
- Contents iii
- List of tables and figures v
- List of contributors vii
- Overview 1
-
Tackling Beveridge’s ‘five evils’, 60 years on
- Freedom from want: 60 years on 11
- Slaying idleness without killing care: a challenge for the British welfare state 29
- Tackling ignorance, promoting social mobility: education policy 1948 and 2008 49
- Beveridge’s giant of disease: from negative to positive welfare? 67
- Tackling squalor? Housing’s contribution to the welfare state 87
- The Poor Law Commission of 1905–09: a view from a century on 109
-
Contemporary childcare policy
- Intercountry adoption in Europe 1998–2007: patterns, trends and issues 133
- Family income as a protective factor for child outcomes 167
- Managing shared residence in Britain and France: questioning a default ‘primary carer’ model 197
- Strategic challenges in child welfare services: a comparative study of Australia, England and Sweden 215
-
Rescaling social policy
- Governance at a distance? The turn to the local in UK social policy 245
- Spatial rescaling, devolution and the future of social welfare 267
- Rescaling emergent social policies in South East Europe 283
- Index 307
