Inequalities among children

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What is the explanation and evidence of nationality as an inequality?
There are different childhoods and life opportunities. 90% of the worlds low birth weight babies are born in developing countries
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What is the explanation and evidence of gender as an inequality?
Hillman- boys are more likely to cycle on roads, use buses and go out in the dark unaccompanied. Bonke- girls do more housework, especially in lone parent families, where they do 5x more housework than boys
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What is the explanation and evidence of ethnicity as an inequality?
Brannen-studied 15/16 year olds+found that Asian parents were more likely than other parents to be strict towards their daughters. Bhatti found that ideas of 'izzat' (family honour) could be restrictive on girls' behaviour
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What is the explanation and evidence of class as an inequality?
Poor mothers are more likely to have a baby of a low birth weight, which is linked to delayed physical&intellectual development. Children of unskilled manual workers are 3x more likely to suffer from hyperactivity+4x more likely to experience conduct
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What is the explanation and evidence of class as an inequality 2?
disorders than the children of professionals. Children born into poor families are more likely to die in infancy or childhood, suffer longstanding illness, shorter in height, fall behind at school and to be placed on the child protection register
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What is the conclusion?
We cannot speak of 'children' in general as if they are all equal as the above factors all influence a child's life chance
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