Family : Changes in Childhood - Class

• Class

  The Joseph Rowntree Foundation (2007) states that children from lower income backgrounds are very aware of their disadvantaged position from a very early age. In their research of 220 children aged five to 11 who took part in group interviews in 15 schools, they found that children's experience of school was negatively affected by poverty leading to poorer life chances.
• Class

  Womack (2007) argues that children who are poor often have very negative experiences of childhood. On the other hand, there is some evidence that children who come from more affluent backgrounds may experience "toxic parenting' where good parenting is being replaced with technology, such as computer garnes (Pilcher, 2007),