Did large families decrease children's cognitive skills? 30 years of research claims that.

 Did large families decrease children's cognitive skills? 30 years of research claims that. 

When we think about which child is the best place in large families, we must realize that in large families. Some of the children can slip away from daily duties. Or some children can delegate all jobs to others. 

Large families are living in environments where there is lots of noise. Another thing is that children of large families might not always get all the notice that they need. In large families can also be hard to get sleep, because somebody is noisy and there are many other interesting things than school work or other kinds of things. In the past food in large families could involve less vitamins than in small families. And that can cause problems with children advancing. 

Is the tale about better social skills of children who grow up with large families just a myth? What happens if a family doesn't accept outsiders? Do things like playing games only with siblings thing that make better social skills? Or does it turn those skills worse? 

Of course, people who live in large families are more sociable. And they might seem to have better social skills when they talk with other family members. But is sociable behavior the synonym for social skills? 

But there is the possibility that large families close other people away from their lives. And it's possible that children of large families are more often only with their siblings, and they don't play with other people. But what happens to people's social skills, if that person sees and talks only with their family members? And talk with their siblings? Are those skills as good as they should be? Do they help a person to get a workplace from outside the family? 

If we think that we live in a small society where there are no outsiders. That means we use only certain words in a day. If we don't use the Internet and discuss versatile things that makes our language poor. We need some outside things to enrich our language. Without that outside effect, we would use it all the time, and sooner or later our discussions would be similar. And if we don't find new topics all our communication turns flat. And then our language turns poor. 

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