Michael Rutter

TL;DR: Of proband characteristics, severity of autism and obstetric optimality were confirmed as being related to familial loading for probands with speech, and Phenotypic rates among parents suggested reduced fitness for the severest and more communication-related forms of expression but not for the more mild and social forms ofexpression.

TL;DR: Child–parent attachment quality with an adoptive caregiver at age 4 years was examined in a sample of 111 children adopted into the United Kingdom following early severe deprivation in Romania and a comparison group of 52 nondeprived within–United Kingdom adoptees, indicating that children who experienced early severe deprived were less likely to be securely attached and more likely to show atypical patterns of attachment behavior.

TL;DR: Topics of particular concern include: memory for traumatic early experience; the effects of mood state and symptomatology on recall; recovered or false memories; and the implications of mental representations of early experience for understanding psychopathology.

TL;DR: The institution-reared women showed a markedly increased rate of poor psychosocial functioning and of severe parenting difficulties in adult life, however, the support of a non-deviant spouse and of good living conditions in adultLife provided a powerful protective effect.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compare the poverty rates of people in their early thirties between those who grew up in poverty and those who did not, and find that for a teenager in the 1970s, the odds of being poor as an adult were doubled if his or her parents were poor.