Poverty hurts children in ways we're beginning to understand

Re:Poverty hurts children in ways we're beginning to understand by ailideex on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @05:52PM (#22175015)

I think we completely rule out cases where people were in a good financial position and could provide for children and cases where people were using birth control child poverty will remain virtually unchanged.

https://www.businessinsider.com/parents-determine-child-succ...

> The researchers further suggest that the "fraction of children living in single-parent households is the strongest correlation of upward income mobility among all the variables we explored."

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Re:Poverty hurts children in ways we're beginning to understand by ska on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @05:58PM (#22175082)

It's a complicated issue. I don't know enough to have a strong opinion on it, but I do know enough to know that a lot of the research is contentious.

The black/white thinking espoused above, though: I doubt it leads to real insight or improvements.

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