By age 5, children raised in poverty tend to score ________ on _________ tests compared to children raised in affluence.lower; social skillslower; intelligencehigher; social skillshigher; verbal skills

Children are more likely to live in poverty than any other age group.Group of answer choicesTrueFalse

how does poverty affect a child

Children born into affluent families are more likely than children of working-class families to __________.A.have difficulties with self-confidenceB.see violence in their homesC.experience mental health problemsD.go on to greater achievement as adults

Which of the following is not a poverty indicator?Group of answer choiceshigh literacy levelslack of shelterscarce clean drinking waterinadequate food and nutrition

Recent research investigating the possible association between language development and poverty found that the socioeconomic status of parents did not uniformly relate to the number of words to which preschoolers are exposed. This suggests that ______________.children raised in households that are below the federal poverty line should show a “rebound effect” when they enter middle school, and excel in their language arts courseshousehold income is a reliable predictor of vocabulary size, both among parents and their childreneven children raised in relatively poorer households are exposed to language at the same rates as those raised in more affluent householdsbeing raised in poverty means that children have fewer opportunities to be exposed to a wide range of vocabulary and examples of language use