Abstract:The income available in children's families can profoundly impact child well-being, and the recent economic recession has drawn renewed attention to income inequality in the U.S. The present research is the first-ever to assess changing disparities in well-being among U.S. children who live in families with vastly different incomes through the use of an overall composite index that incorporates wide ranging domains and indicators of child well-being. Annually since 2004, Kenneth Land and colleagues have develo… Show more
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