At the present, human capital theory (HCT) and neuroscience reasoning are dominant frameworks in early childhood education and care (ECEC) worldwide. Popular since the 1960s, HCT has provided an economic understanding of human beings and offered strategies to manage the population with the promise of bringing improvements to nations. Neuroscience…

Explores relations among depth or timing of poverty, mother's marital history, and quality of the home environment for children ages 6 to 9 years. Results, based on a national longitudinal survey, indicate that the quality of the home environment is substantially lower for poor children than for children who are not poor. (RJM)