Social class
Poor mothers are more likely to have low birth-weight babies, which in turn is linked to delayed physical and intellectual development
Woodroffe found that children of unskilled manual workers are more likely to suffer from hyperactivity & 4 times more likely to experience conduct disorders than the children of professionals.
Howard found that children born into poor families are also more likely to die in infancy or childhood, to suffer longstanding illnesses, to be shorter in height, to fall behind at school, and to be placed on the child protection register.
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