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Download full textHarper, Michelle; Vandivere, Sharon – 1999
While most American children are not poor, the proportion of children living in poverty has remained at or near 20 percent since the early 1980s. Childhood poverty can have short- and long-term negative consequences for children. Growing up at or near the poverty line can affect the quality of a family's housing, children's access to nutritious…
Descriptors: Age Groups, Child Welfare, Children, Family Structure
