Children of the 21st century (Volume 2) : : The first five years / / Kirstine Hansen, Heather Joshi, Shirley Dex.

This book documents the first five years of life of the children of the influential Millennium Cohort Study, which is tracking almost 19,000 babies born in 2000 and 2001 in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. This book is the second in a series of books which will report on the findings f...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-1995
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Place / Publishing House:Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2010]
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Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
Series:The UK Millennium Cohort Study
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of contributors
  • Glossary
  • Introduction
  • Child poverty in the first five years of life
  • Ethnicity, community and social capital
  • Parental relationships and parenting
  • Partnership trajectories, parent and child well-being
  • Employment trajectories and ethnic diversity
  • Neighbourhoods and residential mobility
  • Childcare in the pre-school years
  • Intergenerational inequality in Early Years assessments
  • Ethnic inequalities in child outcomes
  • School choice
  • Teacher assessments in the first year of school
  • Childhood overweight and obesity
  • Resilience in children’s development
  • Parental and child health
  • Conclusions
  • References