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Maternal age at childbirth and offspring disruptive behaviors: testing the causal hypothesis
11 Mar 2009
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BACKGROUND: Recent studies suggest that the association between maternal age at childbearing (MAC) and children's disruptive behaviors is the result of family factors that are confounded with both variables, rather than a casual effect of environmental factors specifically related to MAC. These studies, however, relied on restricted samples and did not use the strongest approach to test causal influences....
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