How family stress affects child development
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Family stress, such as financial problems, can strongly influence children’s physical, cognitive, and social-emotional development.
Therefore, it is important to understand how this happens and what we can do to reduce the risk.
In a review newly published in Current Opinion in Psychology, researchers summarized the impact of economic hardship on children development.
Economic hardship in a family includes low income or negative financial events (e.g., job loss). The hardship can cause economic.