Children
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| 2012 National Child Poverty Rate Stagnates at 22.6 Percent In this brief, authors Marybeth Mattingly, Jessica Carson, and Andrew Schaefer use American Community Survey data released on September 19, 2012, to explore patterns of child poverty across states and place types, focusing on changes both since 2011 and since the… |
New Hampshire, Vulnerable Families Research Program | Children, New Hampshire, Poverty |
| Informal Kinship Care Most Common Out-of-Home Placement After an Investigation of Child Maltreatment This fact sheet examines differences between urban and rural areas in foster care placement with informal kin caregivers. The data for this analysis come from a national sample of children who had a maltreatment report that resulted in an investigation: the second… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Children, Family, Health |
| Record Number of Children Covered by Health Insurance in 2011 Using data from the 2008 through 2011 American Community Survey, this brief describes rates of children’s health insurance coverage nationally, by region, and place type (that is, rural, suburban, and central city). In addition, it details the composition of coverage… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Children, Health |
| Psychotropic Medication Use Among Children in the Child Welfare System Prior research demonstrates that children in the child welfare system are given psychotropic medication at rates approximately three times higher than children and adolescents in the general population.
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Vulnerable Families Research Program | Children, Health |
| Over Sixteen Million Children in Poverty in 2011 UPDATE: This brief has been updated to include revised versions of Figure 1 (page 2) and Appendix 1 (page 6). The original version of this brief overestimated the statistical significance of some state-level changes in child poverty between 2010 and 2011, and has… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Children, Poverty |
| Mathematics Achievement Gaps Between Suburban Students and Their Rural and Urban Peers Increase Over Time In this brief, authors Suzanne Graham and Lauren Provost examine whether attending a school in a rural, urban, or suburban community is related to children’s mathematics achievement in kindergarten, and whether increases in mathematics achievement between… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Children, Education, Rural, Urban |
| Who Cares for the Sick Kids? Parents’ Access to Paid Time to Care for a Sick Child This brief analyzes employed parents’ access to five or more paid sick days annually to care for a sick child in 2008.
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Vulnerable Families Research Program | Children, Family, Health, Income, Wages |
| Understanding Child Abuse in Rural and Urban America: Risk Factors and Maltreatment Substantiation Using a large national sample of child maltreatment reports, this brief compares the outcomes of child maltreatment cases in rural versus urban places and identifies the characteristics associated with substantiation. Child abuse cases substantiated in rural and… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Children, Health, Rural, Urban |
| The Effects of State EITC Expansion on Children’s Health This brief examines the impact of state-level adoption of Earned Income Tax Credits (EITCs) on a set of health-related outcomes for children, including: (1) health insurance coverage, (2) use of preventive medical and dental care, and (3) health status measures… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Children, Health, Safety Net |
| Rates of Public Health Insurance Coverage for Children Rise as Rates of Private Coverage Decline This brief uses data from the 2008, 2009, and 2010 American Community Survey to document changes in rates of children’s health insurance, between private and public. The authors report that, nationally, private health insurance for children decreased by just under 2… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Children, Health Insurance |
