how Individual Risk Factors Affect Absenteeism in Early Schooling

In their publication: "How Maternal, Family and Cumulative Risk Affect Absenteeism in Early Schooling," the National Center for Children in Poverty reports that for every affluent kindergartner - living at or above 400% of the federal poverty - who experienced each of the following risks:

• 30 poor children experienced food insecurity at home
• 20 had a mother with low education
• 15 had an unemployed mother
• 9 were born to a teenage mother
• 7 lived with a single mother
• 6 had a mother with poor health and
• 5 lived in a family with four or more children.