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Risks and protective factors for children experiencing adverse events
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For children growing up in poverty, risk is part of everyday life. Experiences of chronic poverty are often compounded by multiple and recurrent risks and shocks or adverse events. ‘Shocks’ are unexpected events, such as drought, price fluctuations or family illness or death, that have a negative impact on the household economy. Children’s life chances in education, health, and well-being are closely bound up with, and shaped by, the situation of their households, and their socio-cultural env...
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- Palgrave Macmillan UK Publisher's website
- Host title:
- Growing Up in Poverty: Findings from Young Lives
- Series:
- Palgrave Studies on Children and Development
- Pages:
- 71-94
- Publication date:
- 2014-04-05
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- ISBN-10:
- 1137404035
- ISBN-13:
- 9781137404039
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- 2014
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