Chronic stress in early childhood can have negative implications for future life outcomes. This thesis analyzes the relationships between chronic loneliness, perceptions of crime, childhood instability, and classroom behaviors in children. To answer this research question, web scraping was used on Twitter to collect tweets related to the perception of crime in Elkhart, Indiana between June 2016 and May 2019. Topic modeling was conducted on the Twitter data to explore the evolution of topics over time. Crime offense data was collected from an FBI database to analyze actual crime rates in 2016 and 2018. A dataset from the CAPS educational program in Elkhart, Indiana was used to analyze relationships between chronic loneliness, delay of gratification, childhood instability, and other early childhood factors. Logistic and linear regression was conducted on the CAPS data to analyze relationships between the variables. The results indicate that: (i) the perception of crime in the community does not align with actual crime rates, and (ii) no significant relationship exists between childhood instability factors and self-regulation skills in children within the study. This thesis emphasizes the need for policy interventions in early childhood to alleviate chronic stressors that arise from internal and external instability factors in a child’s life. In turn, these interventions will allow for the improvement of future life outcomes in children with social instability.