Low-birth-weight babies of educated parents are resilient and improve on intellectual deficits, while similar kids born to parents with less education. This outcome implies that
a. the quality of the postnatal environment can have a strong influence on the extent to which the development of low-birth-weight babies will be compromised.
b. the healthcare available to healthy families provides effective treatment of low birth weight.
c. low-income parents ignore the results of the Apgar test.
d. reflexes are deficient in poor children.
A
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