Question

How does poverty affect children's social and emotional development?

Answer 1

To grow up in poverty can have a lasting impact on a child. What is less understood is how it affects the early relationships that shape a child’s social and emotional growth.

In ongoing research, Center for Poverty Research Affiliate Ross A. Thompson and Graduate Student Researcher Abby C. Winer have found that a mother’s level of education, household income, and symptoms of depression have lasting effects on her child’s social competence in early childhood.

Answer 2

poverty has an adverse effect on children where that age in which the children have an opportunity to grow develop mental and physical power they are to live in worst condition

it destroy their mental ability and they are forced to take a wrong path