When you are confident that you are good at caring for children, children may feel more secure with you.

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• False

By studying children, you can have a better understanding of why they feel, think, and act the way they do.

• True

• False

Children's need for love has increased as society has become more complex.

• True

• False

Free public school has been available throughout the United States since about 1780.

• True

• False

One hundred years ago, children's clothes were more casual than they are today.

• True

• False

The stages of development are similar for all children all over the world.

• True

• False

Sigmund Freud believed that childhood experiences had little effect on people's adult life.

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• False

Most scientist believe that both nature and nurture affect the way in which a child develops.

• True

• False

The stage of life between childhood and adulthood is called adolescence.

• True

• False

You can learn more about children by reading about them than by observing the.

• True

• False