Public health and economic measures enacted to prevent the spread of Covid-19 and mitigate the financial impact on families have unintended consequences for low-income women and their children. The authors explain why.
This brief is part of a series on the impact of Covid-19 on vulnerable families. The other reports focus on undocumented immigrants in the United States; and the effects of parental stress on the developing brains of children; and resettled refugees in the U.S.
April 7, 2020, 6:31 p.m.
Rachel Tolbert Kimbro, Ph.D., is an associate professor of sociology at Rice University, where she is also the director of the Urban Health Program at the Kinder Institute for Urban Research and a Rice scholar at the Baker Institute. Her …
Patrick S. Tennant, Ph.D., is a project manager focusing on children’s mental health at the Baker Institute Center for Health and Biosciences and a project manager of the Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute. Tennant’s work in the mental health field …
