When new mothers have friends ready to step in and help them, they have toddlers who score better on cognitive tests than the babies of women with smaller social support network. Researchers examined data on 1,082 mother-child pairs

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When new mothers have friends ready to step in and help them, they have toddlers who score better on cognitive tests than the babies of women with smaller social support network. Researchers examined data on 1,082 mother-child pairs