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Senate Committee of Canada (Ontario). Standing Senate Committee on Health, Welfare and Science. – 1980
This report of the Standing Senate Committee on Health, Welfare and Science summarizes and coordinates interdisciplinary evidence and expert opinion in order to provide insight into the way early childhood experiences might be considered as causes of later criminal behavior. The material is divided into three categories: the prenatal period, the…
Descriptors: Birth, Criminals, Delinquency Causes, Early Experience
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Herman, Rosemary – Early Child Development and Care, 1984
Reviews current research on a woman's chances of bearing twins and the genetic relationship, prenatal competition, and personality similarities between twins. In addition, the nature/nurture controversy is discussed in terms of evidence from studies of identical twins reared apart. Future studies are suggested to discover the ways twinning might…
Descriptors: Birth, Evolution, Genetics, Heredity
Quilligan, Edward J.; And Others – 1981
Prepared as a resource for developing a 5-year plan of research for the years 1983-1987 by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, this report reviews current knowledge in three areas of perinatal medicine: pregnancy, birth, and the infant. Within each of these three general areas, several subtopics are discussed. These…
Descriptors: Birth, Health, Infants, Long Range Planning