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- Title
Letters to the Editor.
- Authors
Pasamanick, Benjamin
- Abstract
The article presents a letter to the editor regarding the article by J. Richard Udry published in the September 1970 edition of the "Journal of Health and Social Behavior" periodical. The topic focuses on using genetics as the reason for their failure to find differences in prematurity rates between Afro-American mothers coming from low and middle-class backgrounds. It is cited that a social study by J. Williams and R. Scott concluded that the middle class infants had a lower gross motor behavior compared to the low class infants. It was discovered that the low-class mothers spent more time with their children as against the middle class mothers who spend their time at work and leaving the children to babysitters. The study design did not include the responses of families with illegitimate children thereby adding to the limitation of the research. It appears that the bias against the hypothesis is heavy therefore the evidence offered for the genetic explanation of high prematurity rates in non-whites is not worth considering.
- Subjects
MOTHERS; SOCIAL development; LETTERS to the editor; AFRICAN Americans; NEWBORN infants; INFANT care; BABYSITTERS; GENETICS
- Publication
Journal of Health & Social Behavior, 1971, Vol 12, Issue 2, p174
- ISSN
0022-1465
- Publication type
Letter