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The placement of children in society and their parents’ abilities to raise them are not the only contributors to underperforming children and the widening inequality gap between children of different social classes. The environment and the quality of care given to children also play an important role in the success of children. It is important […]

Critics of governmental monetary support of child-raising argue that this form of support discourages work and that the provided assistance will not necessarily translate into any benefits for children. This assertion proves true in the United States because “the inherent problem with welfare lay in the fact that it is taken away as its recipients […]

Since parents and caregivers, and the environment that a child grow up in are the most influential factors in the later life success of children, solving the injustices and inequalities that children in poorer families face is the “most effective tool we have in early childhood for improving a child’s future” because children in poorer […]