The News:
Life in orphanage stunts IQ
By Benedict CareyThe New York Times
Article Last Updated: 12/21/2007 01:06:03 AM MST
Psychologists have long believed that growing up in an institution like an orphanage stunts children's mental development but have never had direct evidence to back it up. Now they do, from an extraordinary years-long experiment in Romania that compared the effects of foster care with those of institutional child-rearing.
The Research:
Read the research behind this story in the journal Science.
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