Early Childhood Development and Social Inequalities By All families should have the same opportunities to live a descent life. But due to thebackgrounds of some families, and children, they may not have a chance for this. There arecertain risk factors that have a bearing on social inequalities in health, and particularly those thatare prone to preventative intervention. There are many that I could talk about, but I have pickedout four of these factors to talk about. They are biological factors, family and social factors,parenting factors, and attachment. Even these I feel that I will not be able to cover completely,because there is only a certain part we see, and then there is the that is kept hidden from all.There are many factors that influence the development and social inequalities in a child’slife. These include biological, family and social factors, parenting factors, attachment, and theway non-maternal care is influenced. All of these are risk factors that are likely to have a bearingon the child’s social inequalities on their health.The biological factors include premature birth, low birth weight, and a serious medicalillness. The significantly influence and infants growth. “Low birth weight, less than 2500grams, has a prevalence of 6 percent in white middle-class U.S. women, and 15 percent in ethnicminority teenagers. These teenagers tend to be single mothers.” At the Infant Health andDevelopment Project, they found that in a large amount of premature infants, that their ...
