Another area that we\u2019ve been using these data for has been to try and identify who are children who, through no fault of their own, but really through their, where they were born, where they live, what their circumstances are, are really marginalized and placed at risk. The kinds of factors that we were able to look at were: number 1, was this a child of a mother who was a teen when her first child was born? We started looking at, was this a child of a teen mother? But it turns out that the child is basically at risk because the mother is at risk \u2013 for poverty. So it\u2019s not that the teen mother, per se, is such a terrible thing if one provides support. But there\u2019s no question that children of teen mothers are very much at risk. So that was one risk factor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
We also looked at families who had, the child lived in. who had received income assistance. Again, poverty being the driving problem. We also looked at families where, or children – where the child had been taken into care, or the family had been offered protection services, because of, typically, dysfunctional behaviour in the family, for children in that family. And we found, one of the most interesting things we found was how broad an issue it is in, particularly in Winnipeg and the rest of Manitoba, finding a child with one of these risk characteristics. I mean, I personally don\u2019t know many children of teen mothers or children in care or children in poverty – whose parents are on income assistance. But when you look across the province and you look at children who\u2019ve experienced one of these characteristics in the last 10 years, 10 years of their life, we\u2019re up to almost a third of Manitoba\u2019s children who have this characteristic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
So what we\u2019ve been interested in knowing is when we have children with one or more of these risk factors, how does this seem to affect them? What is it associated with? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
So we\u2019ve looked at characteristics such as does the child, the young woman, does the child become a teen mother herself And there\u2019s no question that the more risk factors one has the more likely the young woman is to become a teen mother. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
We\u2019ve also looked at how likely is a child to graduate from high school. And there\u2019s a huge difference between, and here, we\u2019re not talking about the most affluent group in society, we\u2019re just saying, compared to the two thirds of children who don\u2019t have one of these risk factors, again – enormous differences. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
We\u2019ve looked at, is the child, when they graduate, or they don\u2019t graduate from high school, when they become a young adult, how likely is that child to go on, receive income assistance, i.e., be unable to find a job and support themselves. Again \u2013 big differences. So, it is clearly, we\u2019re finding these risk factors place children at \u2013 they\u2019re very likely to not have a good start in life. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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