One out of four American children is born into poverty, but little is known about the long-term
mental health implications of early deprivation. The more time in poverty from birth to age 9 …

The current study assessed whether the proportion of childhood (age 0–9 years) in poverty
altered the developmental trajectories (ages 9–24) of multimethodological indicators of …

Childhood disadvantage has repeatedly been linked to adult physical morbidity and
mortality. We show in a prospective, longitudinal design that childhood poverty predicts …

The one in five children growing up in poverty in America have elevated risk for
socioemotional difficulties. One contributing factor to their elevated risk may be exposure to …

Objectives. We determined whether exposure to family poverty over a child's early life
course predicts adolescent and young adult anxiety and depression. Methods. We used a …

Poor children experience greater psychological distress than do nonpoor children. However,
evidence for the relationship between poverty and children's distress is limited by the use of …

This study examines the cumulative effects of poverty on children's socio-emotional
outcomes from ages 5 to 12, using US National Longitudinal Survey of Youth data (N …

Using a sample of four to nine year-old children from the 1992 wave of the Children of the
National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth data set, we evaluated racial and ethnic differences …

Using cumulative risk and latent class analysis (LCA) models, we examined how exposure
to deep poverty (income-to-needs ratio< 0.50) and 4 poverty-related risks (ie, single-parent …

PURPOSE: To examine the impact of the timing and duration of family experiences of
poverty over the child/adolescent early life course on child aggressive/delinquent behavior …