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School Thesis Intro
They found that children were likely to have stunted intellectual development if they were
exposed to two or more disadvantages, such as having a parent who suffered from depression,
and living in an overcrowded home.
Some 28% of the children they studied came from families that faced two or more disadvantages.
In most cases, these children had a considerably reduced vocabulary or behaved worse than their
peers. (Shepherd, 2014)
Asian students in the United States are out performing other groups because there is a strong
family structure in place with boundary lines between generations strongly enforced and with
parents closely monitoring and helping with homework and school performance in general.
(Schwartz, 2015)