From: Zee News
Nurturing mums raise physically healthier adults
January 25, 2012
Zee News:
Washington: Adults who had nurturing mothers in childhood have better physical health in midlife, a new study has found.
Brandeis psychologist Margie Lachman with Gregory Miller and colleagues at the University of British Columbia and the University of California, Los Angeles reveal that while children raised in families with low socioeconomic status (SES) frequently go on to have high rates of chronic illness in adulthood, a sizable minority remain healthy across the life course.
The research sought to examine if parental nurturance could mitigate the effects of childhood disadvantage.
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