rate of crime and reduced rates of drug and alcohol abuse. For example, the younger generations are also taking marriage and childrearing more seriously, learning from the mistakes made by their parents. Americans are also embracing the evidence showing that indeed, divorce is bad for children, and that good parenting requires moms and dads to actually spend time with their children at home.
In fact, Hynmowitz (2004) even goes so far as to claim that some young Gen-X adults “resemble their Silent Generation grandparents more than their boomer parents, especially in their longing for suburban nesting as… Continue Reading...
negative health impact. These factors include low wages, unstable family life, risky sexual behavior, drug and alcohol abuse, high crime, low education, obesity, diabetes, and poor access to health care (Boyer et al., 2017; Guariguata, 2014; Osborn, Squires, Doty, Sarnak & Schneider, 2016). Low income adults, therefore, are at risk of not receiving the proper health education they need to maintain healthy lifestyle; they are at risk of lacking a cogent support system to maintain a healthy lifestyle; they are at risk of not having adequate access to health care, whereby they maintain obtain necessary health education and preventive care.
Understanding the needs and… Continue Reading...
