Poverty Not Instability Affect Cognitive Development

[Atheist-Lite]

Just thinking, perhaps Rum will confirm, the family courts/childrens services like to remove kids from unstable homes, those with chaotic lifestyles but not so much based on material deprivation? I mean relative poverty is now signficantly improved whilst absolute or deep relative povery remains entrenched.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 184437.htm

ScienceDaily (Apr. 20, 2011) — Children from homes that experience persistent poverty are more likely to have their cognitive development affected than children in better off homes, reveals research published ahead of print in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.

Family instability, however, makes no additional difference to how a child's cognitive abilities have progressed by the age of five, after taking into account family poverty, family demographics (e.g. parental education and mother's age) and early child characteristics, UK researchers found.

There is much evidence of the negative effects of both poverty and family structure on child development, particularly persistent poverty and adverse living conditions. Poverty and family instability are linked as poverty affects families economically and socially and can increase the risk of relationship break-ups.

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[Gallstones]

Now I know why I'm such a retard.