Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!masnet!canremote!jim.mitchell
From: jim.mitchell@canremote.uucp (JIM MITCHELL)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Genetics and IQ
Message-ID: <89090607414573@masnet.uucp>
Date: 4 Sep 89 21:52:00 GMT
Organization: Canada Remote Systems Limited, Mississauga, ON, Canada
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The adopted children study seems to show that enviroment extends to
conception - or is that too obvious? Is the enviroment of the first
nine months after conception no different for rich and poor - or
is this a factor that cannot be considered in poverty-free America?
Shall we consider that people don't adopt without the means, unless
they are related.

What the study seems to show is that a child of poverty has a better
chance if she is adopted; but not as good as a child of affluence.
On the other hand a child of affluence will probably not sink lower
than an adequate financial level. The child of poverty faces only
one real hurdle - getting past its relatives to adoptive parents
who have been means tested.

C.Yah... jim.
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