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A team of researchers has provided the first evidence that parents may talk less to their kids when experiencing financial scarcity.

A team of researchers has provided the first evidence that parents may talk less to their kids when experiencing financial scarcity.

Parents have been recently talking less to you? Study says this may be the case - Recent study suggest that parenting training may not be sufficient to close academic achievement gap without addressing the broader issue of income.

Tackling income inequality could boost low-income children's vocabulary, new study suggests ANI | Updated: Jul 20, 2021 08:52 IST Washington [US], July 20 (ANI): While parenting deficiencies have long been blamed for the word gap, new research from the University of California, Berkeley, implicates the economic context in which parenting takes place- in other words, the wealth gap. The findings, published this month in the journal Developmental Science, provide the first evidence that parents may talk less to their kids when experiencing financial scarcit...

Rich families and poor families, basically, following up on that classic study by hart and risley years ago, showing the so-called 30 million word gap. that's kind of become a buzz word. but when we look across these broad groups, from a socioeconomic perspective, in terms of income and education, we find that within richer families, and within poorer families, there's incredible variability, a difference in how much parents engage with their children. it's not the s.e.c. or socioeconomic status is destiny, those differences are there. with the more advantaged families having all those gadgets...