Children from low-income families in Singapore suffer a high degree of adversity, and these unhappy childhood experiences could set them up for poorer outcomes well into adulthood, a new study here has found.
Almost all of these children - nine in 10 - face at least one negative childhood experience such as abuse or parental separation, according to preliminary findings in the study by the Singapore Children's Society (SCS).
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