Researchers from the Institute of Education at the University of London, and the Institute of Psychiatry at Kings College London, found that children exposed to ongoing poverty scored approximately five to seven points less in the vocabulary part of their cognitive assessment at the age of five than those from more affluent families.
Their analysis of data from the Millennium Cohort Study, a survey of 18,819 babies born between September 2000 and January 2002 in the UK, also showed that children growing up in stable two-parent families had higher levels of cognitive ability than those in one-parent families or children who experienced a change in living arrangements.
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