Differential Parental Investment: Its Effects on Child Quality and Status Attainment

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Parents of many children, by contrast, epitomize reproductive "fitness," but, on average, sacrifice child quality in the cognitive and educational sense. Hence, from the point of view of their offspring's ability to function amid the complexity of human societies, parents would seem best advised to limit the size of their families and invest in "quality."A principal finding of research on social stratification in the United States is that men's educational attainment is the single most important known determinant of their occupational status. In 1956 Anne Anastasi summarized the research to date on sibsize and intelligence. The results of 110 studies showed that customarily the relationship was inverse. In deviant cases confounding factors and selection biases were clearly operating. The research reported on here is based on two cycles of the Health Examination Survey conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics. Between 1960 and 1970 three cycles of the Health Examination Survey were completed.

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