BORN DURING AVAR
PROGRESS OF CHILDREN HISTORIES BEING NOTED LONDON, Dec. 1 The history of the war-time baby is to be documented over the 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 thev 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, are taller and stronger than post-war children, though roughly 20 per cent of them, at the age of 15, have defective vision, and have to wear glasses. The average war baby has been good at lessons, attaining a higher standard of scholarship than children aged four to eight during the war, and yielding better j results in psychological tests for capacity than children born after the war. j
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21360, 8 December 1932, Page 12
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