WAR-TIME BABY
SCIENTIFIC STUDY PLAN. Tho history of tho war-time baby is to be documented in Britain over tho next four years by a number of educational authorities. It is hoped to learn from these records how children born during the four war years develop, and what success they attain in the world. "Will they provide outstanding successes or dismal failures? Will they form a class apart? Observations already made reveal that, in general, war babies, particularly if their fathers were in the fighting services, aro taller and strong, er than post-war children, though roughly 20 per cent, of them, at the ago of 15, have defective vision, and have to wear glasses. The average waVbaby has been good at lessons, attaining a higher standard of scholarship tha-n children, aged four to eight, during tho war, and yielding better results in psychological tests for capacity than children born after the war.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 14, 14 December 1932, Page 15
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