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ArticleDaedalus2025

Caring for Children in Lower-ses Contexts: Recognizing Parents' Agency, Adaptivity & Resourcefulness.

Monica E Ellwood-Lowe, Gabriel Reyes, Meriah L DeJoseph, Willem E Frankenhuis

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Article in Daedalus, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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3 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Monica E Ellwood-LowePostdoctoral Scholar in the Changing Brain Lab at the University of Pennsylvania.
Gabriel ReyesKnight-Hennessy Scholar and Quad Fellow in the Developmental and Psychological Sciences in the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University.
Meriah L DeJosephRuth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Postdoctoral Fellow through the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development at the Center on Early Childhood at Stanford University.
Willem E FrankenhuisAssociate Professor of Evolutionary Psychobiology at the University of Amsterdam and a Senior Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law.

Funding

Disentangling the role of poverty-related experiences on children's self-regulation: Identifying dynamic and contextually-relevant mechanismsF32HD112065 · NICHD · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI DEJOSEPH, MERIAH L · 2023 to 2025
$230k
NICHD NIH HHS F32 HD112065NICHD NIH HHS L40 HD116263
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

From public policy to the social sciences, parenting in low-resource contexts is often viewed through a lens of deficit: there is a focus on what parents should be doing differently. We challenge this idea, highlighting the deliberate and rational choices parents with low socioeconomic status often make to navigate their circumstances and give their children the best lives possible under significant constraints. These parenting decisions may go beyond simply ensuring children's survival in harsh contexts. In some cases, they might give children the best shot at upward mobility. This view broadens our scientific understanding of good care, and implies that children may be best served when resources are spent on meeting families' needs, rather than instructing parents on how to care.

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PMID40880727
PMCPMC12383239

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