PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - G A Neligan
AU  - D Prudham
TI  - Family factors affecting child development.
AID  - 10.1136/adc.51.11.853
DP  - 1976 Nov 01
TA  - Archives of Disease in Childhood
PG  - 853--858
VI  - 51
IP  - 11
4099  - http://adc.bmj.com/content/51/11/853.short
4100  - http://adc.bmj.com/content/51/11/853.full
SO  - Arch Dis Child1976 Nov 01; 51
AB  - In a large, geographically defined population of children a number of family factors in addition to social class, determined by the father's occupation, were recorded by health visitors and school nurses with routine responsibility for these children. The quality of the children in normal schools was assessed in terms of nonverbal IQ and height at the ages of 5 and 10 years, and of behavior as reported by the teacher at the age of 10 years. By analysis of variance the sum of the independent effects of the other family factors greatly outweighed that of occupational social class, except in the case of the IQ at 10 years. The most important of the other family factors was the quality of the mother's care of her child during the first 3 years of life.