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Mednick, Birgitte R.; And Others – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1985
Investigates relationships between family structure variables and 17 measures describing children's intellectual, psychosocial, and physical growth. Subjects were a 10 percent random sample of a Danish cohort consisting of children born in a Copenhagen hospital between September 1959 and December 1961; 857 subjects were followed to age 19.…
Descriptors: Birth Order, Children, Family Size, Intellectual Development