Posted on 01/24/2022 12:27:00 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
New research suggests giving extra cash to low-income mothers can change their infants’ brain development.
Brain measurements at age 1 showed faster activity in key brain regions in infants whose low-income families received $300-plus monthly for a year, compared with those who got $20 each month, U.S. researchers reported Monday.
The same type of brain activity has been linked in older children to learning skills and other development, although it’s unclear whether the differences found will persist or influence the infants’ future.
The researchers are investigating whether the payments led to better nutrition, less parent stress or other benefits to the infants. There were no restrictions on how the money was spent.
The larger cash payments in the study were similar to those distributed to low-income families during the pandemic in President Joe Biden’s child tax credit program, which ended last month.
The study “couldn’t be more relevant to the current moment,” Dr. Joan Luby, a professor of child psychiatry at Washington University’s medical school.
While renewal of the tax credit is uncertain, “this study should really inform Congress about how tremendously important” it is, said Luby. She reviewed the study for the scientific journal but was not involved in the research.
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Think how amazingly bright those kids would be, if we gave them, say, $10,000 per month, instead of $300? Who would deny this “FOR THE CHILDREN”?
Or, it may not.
Just think of the brainwaves if their mommas got $30,000 a month!
BULL CRAP
Yep, they can buy more booze and cigarettes and really affect their babies..................
“The researchers”
Also known as the democrats
I call a bullshit study!
Reparations by any other name
AP running Babylon Bee stories now?
As if a penny of it would go to the baby’s needs
Extra cash = more booze/drugs?
If a private charity foundation gives out money to these women, fine. But if they use tax dollars, that is when I will have a problem with it.
Better sew together some Benjamins as receiving blankets.
Imagine what not having kids they can’t support might do for the mother.
Its science, damn it!
“There were no restrictions on how the money was spent.”
Yeah, that’ll work out just fine.
How would daddies for the babies help?
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