How is poverty related to child maltreatment?
How is poverty related to child maltreatment? These children were almost 56 times more likely to be educationally neglected and over 22 times more likely to be seriously injured. While poverty is clearly linked with maltreatment, the relationship is not all that simple. Not all parents who live in poverty abuse their children, and many who do are not poor. How are children affected by poverty in the United States? For example, Evans and his colleagues were able to use neuroimaging of the brains of around 50 of the study’s participants, half of whom grew up poor and the other...