Socioeconomic Status - Parenting - and Child Development

Question: Discuss about the Socioeconomic Status, Parenting, and Child Development? Answer: Effect of parental SES on child health From the research, it is found that Parental SES (Socioeconomic Status) can have an impact on both their health as well as their health of their children. Schooling attainment of parents is correlated with their health consciousness. Parent with more schooling showed less smoking and alcohol consumption and work less in occupations, which are dangerous for health. This tendency may be because people, who have a plan for better future, pursue more schooling and try to follow healthy behaviors (Bornstein Bradley, 2014). According to Grossman's health model, there are many insights of parental SES can affect childrens health. First budget constraints prevent poor families from buying medicines or health materials. Second, parents with less education fail to meet with the health requirements for their child. The health beliefs of the parents with low education background deviate from parents with higher education. However, it is not necessary that the children belonging to the SES famil ies should have worse genetic endowment but may stalk from different environmental triggers that can activate several genes. Evidence According to the collected data from California and Britain, it is found that SES children are mostly showed low birth weight than the children who belong to the high SES. The difference between high and low SES children persists through their childhood (Sarsour et al., 2011). However, health gaps are lesser in Canada and Britain than in the United States. On the other hand, from researches, it is found that poor children in the U.S., Canada and Britain receive more health insults, and they experience chronic conditions than the children with higher SES. References Bornstein, M. H., Bradley, R. H. (Eds.). (2014).Socioeconomic Status, Parenting, And Child Development. Routledge. Sarsour, K., Sheridan, M., Jutte, D., Nuru-Jeter, A., Hinshaw, S., Boyce, W. T. (2011). Family socioeconomic status and child executive functions: the roles of language, home environment, and single parenthood.Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society,17(01), 120-132.