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Author: Elias, Marilyn
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1. Elias, Marilyn
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

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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.
2. Elias, Marilyn
To A Larger Degree, More Girls Make College Plans
USA Today, August 20, 2001, Life; Pg. 6D
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: USA Today
Keyword(s): College Education; College Enrollment; Colleges; Education; Educational Aspirations/Expectations; Educational Attainment; Gender

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Article reports on a study which utilizes NLSY data to show that more girls than boys intend to enroll in college, suggesting that male college attendance rates will continue to decline.
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Elias, Marilyn. "To A Larger Degree, More Girls Make College Plans." USA Today, August 20, 2001, Life; Pg. 6D.