Risk Factors and Children

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This paper examines how, for a child, living in poverty can affect every faucet of their being. It looks at how there are certain mediators and moderators that sometimes serve as risk factors that might increase the likelihood of negative outcomes for children. It explains those and moderators and focuses on the micro-level of the child?s world to show what role they play and how life is affected by such factors.

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"Substance abuse is one of the risk factors that are also an aspect of family functioning which directly affects the child within the microsystem. The actions of the parent might not even be focused toward the child, but they may still be affected. If a mother abuses a substance, she will be less able to take cues from her baby or respond to her in an appropriate manor. Parents usually become harsh and authoritarian in their discipline practices, causing children to act out for attention and behave negatively. Some parents may emotionally or physically abuse their children, including neglect. Those are just ways in which this risk factor affects parents."

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