Lyman Stone, E21
Do moms really matter? The question seems almost too obvious to ask: of course moms matter! But the extent to which parents or parenting matter for child outcomes is hotly debated. Some researchers have suggested that parents really don’t have much influence on how children develop. But new research supports the idea that parenting counts. Using data on tens of thousands of Israeli students in the 1980s and 1990s, a team of researchers has provided compelling new proof that parents influence kids. Read more here....