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Resource Thresholds for Parenting to Enhance Child Cognition

JAMA Pediatrics 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2025.3667

October 13, 2025 at 11:00 AM EDT

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This Viewpoint describes the degree to which material resources are associated with supportive parenting and cognitive development and the need to update public policy about improving the lives of children in the United States.

Corresponding Author: Joan L. Luby, MD, Washington University in St Louis, 660 S Euclid Ave, St Louis, MO 63110 (lubyj@wustl.edu).

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