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ensure accuracy. From Neurons to Neighborhoods: The Science of
Early Childhood Development family resource differences derive
primarily from parents' genetic endowments (e.g., cognitive,
mental health) as behavioral geneticists argue (see, for
example, Rowe, 1994), then any putative effects of resources on
children's development could in fact derive from genetic
endowments rather than from any of the features of families that
we have just discussed. This in turn would render policy efforts
aimed at these features either moot or exceedingly difficult.
There is little doubt that genetic influences need to be added
to the long list of potentially important factors that deserve
attention in studies that assess the effects of family resources
on children 's development. The issue is how to ask the
pertinent questions and how to explor