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Turney, Kristin; Goodsell, Rebecca – Future of Children, 2018
A half century ago, relatively few US children experienced the incarceration of a parent. In the decades since, incarceration rates rose rapidly (before leveling off more recently), and today a historically unprecedented number of children are exposed to parental incarceration. In this article, Kristin Turney and Rebecca Goodsell review the…
Descriptors: Parents, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions, Children
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Addai, Isaac; Pokimica, Jelena – Social Indicators Research, 2012
We explore associations among interpersonal (thick and thin) and institutional (legislative, executive, and judicial) trust and material hardship outcomes in Ghana. We use data from the 2008 Afrobarometer survey. Material hardship is conceptualized in terms of frequency of going without five basic necessities/consumptive deprivations, each of…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Fuels, Foreign Countries, Disadvantaged Environment
Garber, Howard L. – 1988
This study examines effectiveness of preschool and family intervention in prevention of cultural-familial retardation. It attempts to resolve part of the complex of influences on early intellectual development in those born into seriously disadvantaged environments that could account for the increased risk for certain children to be identified as…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Cognitive Development, Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Environment