This paper reviews research suggesting that the prevention of intergenerational poverty will be enhanced if we add evidence-based family and school prevention programs to existing efforts to reduce poverty in order to address the adverse social environments that often accompany poverty. Government policies such as the Earned Income Tax Credit can reduce family poverty, but simply improving the economic stability of the family will not necessarily prevent the development of child and adolescent problems such as academic failure, antisocial behavior, drug abuse, and depression, all of which can undermine future economic wellbeing. We briefly review the evidence linking family poverty to adverse social environments, which can have deleterious effects on children's psychological, behavioral, neurological, and physical development. We then document the value of evidence-based family- and school-based prevention programs in effectively addressing these behavioral, emotional, cognitive, and neurophysiological factors that can put children at risk for continued poverty in adulthood. We also describe three family-based prevention programs that have been found to have a direct effect on families' future economic wellbeing. The evidence indicates that widely disseminating effective and efficient family- and school-based prevention programs can help to address both poverty itself and the effects of adverse social environments, making future poverty less likely. We conclude with specific recommendations for federal and state policymakers, researchers, and practitioners.

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预防代际贫困的预防科学的承诺。

本文回顾了研究建议，如果我们在现有的减贫工作中增加基于证据的家庭和学校预防计划，以解决经常伴随贫困的不利社会环境，则将加强对代际贫困的预防。收入所得税抵免等政府政策可以减轻家庭贫困，但是仅仅改善家庭的经济稳定性并不一定会阻止儿童和青少年问题的发展，例如学业失败，反社会行为，药物滥用和抑郁症，所有这些这会损害未来的经济状况。我们简要回顾了将家庭贫困与不利的社会环境联系起来的证据，这可能对孩子的心理，行为，神经和身体发育产生有害影响。然后，我们记录了基于证据的家庭和基于学校的预防计划在有效解决可能使儿童面临成年持续贫困风险的行为，情感，认知和神经生理因素方面的价值。我们还描述了三个基于家庭的预防计划，这些计划被发现对家庭未来的经济状况具有直接影响。有证据表明，广泛传播有效和高效的基于家庭和学校的预防方案可以帮助解决贫困本身和不利的社会环境的影响，从而减少未来贫困的可能性。我们以针对联邦和州决策者，研究人员和从业人员的具体建议作为结尾。