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Early Development Delays and Extreme Poverty
Author(s) -
Din Anne Bar
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
children and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.538
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1099-0860
pISSN - 0951-0605
DOI - 10.1111/j.1099-0860.1992.tb00391.x
Subject(s) - poverty , context (archaeology) , extreme poverty , psychology , sociology , developmental psychology , history , economic growth , economics , archaeology
SUMMARY. The children of Santa Ursula, a marginalised area of Mexico City, suffer extreme forms of deprivation both in terms of their material conditions and their social context. The author of this paper describes her study of the children and their mothers, using standard psychological tests. Acknowledging that these tests are culturally specific to the so called ‘developed’ world, the results are nonetheless interesting in that the administration of the tests produces as significant results as the tests themselves. The article emphasises that there are important lessons for those working with children in deprived and oppressed circumstances, in all parts of the world.