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Title: Mom's IQ, Not Family Size, Key to Kids' Smarts
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Elias, Marilyn |
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Mom's IQ, Not Family Size, Key to Kids' Smarts USA Today, June 12, 2000, LIFE; Pg. 1D Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: USA Today Keyword(s): Children; Children, Home Environment; Cognitive Ability; Family Size; I.Q.; Mothers Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Psychologists have been warning U.S. parents for 15 years about research that shows having a large family tends to lower the IQs of children. A study out today challenges that belief. Women with low IQs do have more babies than the more mentally able, and so their children are likely to have low IQs. But adding kids to any single family does not lower the intellectual capacity of its youngsters, the large national report shows. Mothers with high IQs will tend to have kids with high IQs--whether they have one or six--and the children's intelligence scores typically will be fairly similar, no matter how many there are, says University of Oklahoma psychologist Joseph Lee Rodgers. |
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Elias, Marilyn. "Mom's IQ, Not Family Size, Key to Kids' Smarts." USA Today, June 12, 2000, LIFE; Pg. 1D. |