Tracing the Consequences of Child Poverty

Boyden, Jo; Dawes, Andrew; Dornan, Paul; Tredoux, Colin

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“…The impacts of poverty and inequality also affect children’s education. Affected by poor nutrition and other issues, children who come from impoverished families enter educational systems at a disadvantage that stays with them throughout their time in the educational system (Boyden, Dawes, Dornan, & Tredoux, 2019). Many such children have to drop out of school in order to work to help support their families.…”

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Understanding and ending violence against children: A holistic approach.

Wessells¹,

Kostelny²

2021

Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology

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Violence against children is a pervasive problem that affects approximately half of the world's children each year, imposing heavy burdens of physical, psychological, and social suffering on them. People who are known to children-including family members-are among the main perpetrators of violence against children. This article analyzes how violence against children is a significant problem of peace, and it uses some of the main peace analytic concepts to illuminate the origins of violence against children and the likely means of preventing and ending it. Using a social ecological framework, the article first outlines the scale and the diverse forms of episodic violence against children at different levels. Next, it examines how structural and cultural violence against children undergird and, in turn, are supported by episodic violence against children. The article then examines current global efforts to end violence against children through a peace psychological lens. Although the analysis finds much of value, it points out how current efforts to end violence against children are too narrow, Western dominated, low on sustainability, and prone to causing unintended harm. Finally, the article discusses how work on ending violence against children would benefit from a holistic, multidisciplinary approach, focusing more on the interplay of episodic, structural, and cultural violence and on positive peace. Public Significance StatementGlobally, human well-being and peace are shattered by widespread physical, psychological, and sexual violence against children at levels ranging from the family to the international levels. The direct violence is undergirded and supported by structural and cultural violence against children. Although most efforts to end violence against children focus on direct violence, this paper argues in favor of a more holistic approach that addresses the intersections of direct, structural, and cultural violence.

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Section: Structural Violence Against Childrenmentioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding and ending violence against children: A holistic approach.

Wessells¹,

Kostelny²

2021

Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology

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“…Girls are also more likely than boys to repeat classes across all grades and are less likely to pass their school leaving certificate. Moreover, girls have less labour market opportunities, which, combined with household poverty or social pressure, might force girls to marry rather than continue their studies [20]. Unequal access to health care, and skewed intrahousehold food allocation practices leading to food and micronutrient deprivation, according to age, or sex are persistent [21].…”

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Unravelling adolescent girls’ aspirations in Nepal: Status and associations with individual-, household-, and community-level characteristics

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Background Adolescents’ aspirations have potential to influence their present and future well-being. Limited knowledge exists on adolescent girls’ aspirations and their determinants, particularly in low-income contexts. Methods and findings Using cross-sectional data, collected in 2018 in Nepal, within the Suaahara II Adolescent Panel Survey, (n = 840), adolescent girls’ aspirations in several domains—education, occupation, marriage, fertility, health, and nutrition–were described. Regression models were estimated to explore associations between individual, household and community characteristics and these aspirations for all adolescents and separately for younger (10–14 years) and older (15–19 years) girls. Age, school attendance, and self-efficacy, as well as household wealth, caste/ethnicity, size, and agro-ecological zone of residence were significantly associated with aspirations, although effect sizes and significance varied by aspiration domain and age group. Conclusions Findings underscore the curtailing effect of poverty on aspirations and the dynamic nature of aspirations. Initiatives to foster girls’ aspirations must address both individual and contextual factors.

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“…However, there is growing recognition that poverty experienced in childhood is to some extent different in kind from that encountered by adults (Boyden et al, 2019; Bray et al, 2019). The rapid development of children in the first 2 years and, relative to adults, throughout much of childhood, means that the negative consequences of deprivation are magnified and long‐lasting, imprinting themselves on adult life (Boyden et al, 2019; Le Menestrel & Duncan, 2019). Several authors have also proposed child‐specific dimensions of poverty that need to be embraced and measured to provide an appropriate account of children's experience of poverty (Guio et al, 2018; Vaz et al, 2019b).…”

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Children's dimensions of poverty: Qualitative studies in urban China

2022

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The dimensionality of child poverty is not well understood because children are seldom asked systematically to describe their poverty experience. This hinders the prediction of poverty's long-term consequences and constrains policy design. In this research, 55 children aged 8-12 from Hangzhou and Beijing China were each interviewed individually for 0.5-2 h and participated in 3-4 focus group sessions on poverty experience. Integrating their understanding with the perspectives of parents and teachers suggests nine dimensions of poverty: four struc tural (material deprivation, limiting home environment, constrained education, restricted opportunities); three relational (violence, negative social relations, lack of confidence) and two core (shame, neglected agency).

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Tracing the Consequences of Child Poverty

Cited by 8 publications

References 102 publications

Understanding and ending violence against children: A holistic approach.

Understanding and ending violence against children: A holistic approach.

Unravelling adolescent girls’ aspirations in Nepal: Status and associations with individual-, household-, and community-level characteristics

Children's dimensions of poverty: Qualitative studies in urban China

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