Speaking at a conference last week, Mr Duncan Smith said, 'The evidenceshows that if a child is born into a home where they are nurtured, whereconversation takes place, where they are read to even at an age wherethey can't understand, what happens is that the child's brain develops,their social skills develop, they go off to nursery school able to learnfrom the next phase of their education. If they don't have any of that,if they are not challenged, if they're sat in front of a TV for hoursand hours on end, if there's anger and shouting, if they witness theirmother being abused or some boyfriend takes a dislike to them, thenstudies show that child will arrive at nursery school often not able tospeak properly. Certainly they will be unable to conceive of the idea ofsharing or socialising with other children.
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