Thesis: Poverty is a longtime problem for American children.
Research shows that poverty hurts children in many ways.
Experts and policy makers do not agree on how to stop the link between poverty and children's welfare.
Learning more about how poverty affects children can help children's well-being.
The subject of children in poverty has been studied for many years.
After World War II, experts found psychological reasons to explain why people were poor.
Caseworkers and academics thought that they could just "intervene" in poor families' psychology to keep them from being poor.
The economic system was not analyzed as a source of poverty until 1963 and afterward.
Newer studies look at poverty as the cause of psychological problems, not problems as the cause of poverty.
Unemployment and lower education lead to poverty, and poverty creates stress in parents.
Children's emotions can be hurt by stressed parents.
Stressed parents may not take care of children before or after birth, causing problems for children.
Children's health and development is at risk.
Poverty keeps parents from getting good health care for their children.
There are more children in poverty in 2003 than 1997 who do not have health insurance.
Poverty can lead to physical, psychological, and environmental neglect: a repeating cycle of problems.
Poor children may have problems with cognitive development.
Poverty is a bigger cause of cognitive problems than neglect because poverty causes neglect.
Causes of children in poverty relate to race, education, and marriage of parents.
Nonwhite children of single parents who do not have 12 years of education are most likely to be in poverty.
"Dire" poverty can continue for many years, especially for minority children.
The "context" of poverty causes many problems.
Parents in poverty conditions do not have good skills at raising their children.
Children in poverty ...