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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP, I think what folks have been saying is that your mom could pick out kids who were struggling, had no help at home, etc.  Of course she could!  But what others are saying is that those struggling kids might not be struggling due to lower income, but due to parents who are absent, don't care enough, or drink all night long - and those things are not necessarily correlated with income.[/quote]

Umm yes it does, low income has a higher change of child neglect as well as abuse

Family Structure
Children living with single parents may be at higher risk of experiencing physical and sexual abuse and neglect than children living with two biological parents. Single parent households are substantially more likely to have incomes below the poverty line. Lower income, the increased stress associated with the sole burden of family responsibilities, and fewer supports are thought to contribute to the risk of single parents maltreating their children. In 1998, 23 percent of children lived in households with a single mother, and 4 percent lived in households with a single father.46 A strong, positive relationship between the child and the father, whether he resides in the home or not, contributes to the child's development and may lessen the risk of abuse.

In addition, studies have found that compared to similar non-neglecting families, neglectful families tend to have more children or greater numbers of people living in the household.  Chronically neglecting families often are characterized by a chaotic household with changing constellations of adult and child figures (e.g., a mother and her children who live on and off with various others, such as the mother's mother, the mother's sister, or a boyfriend).

http://www.childwelfare.gov/pubs/usermanuals/foundation/foundatione.cfm[/quote]

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