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Mothers' talk is key to kids' social skills, study says

Posted May 15, 2009, updated May 15, 2009.

(CNN) -- Mothers often get blamed for the way their children turn out, and a new study gives additional weight to that accusation. Research from the United Kingdom shows that the way mothers talk to their children at a young age influences their social skills later in childhood.

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