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To the Editor: Hack et al. (Jan. 17 issue)¹ report that 20-year-olds who had very low birth weight have a lower rate of risk-taking behavior than their normal-birth-weight peers, and the authors describe this finding as "reassuring." McCormick and Richardson, in their editorial,² suggest that the avoidance of risk-taking behavior indicates a special "resilience" in very-low-birth-weight children and their families.

I disagree. As the parent of a very-low-birth-weight adult, the moderator of an Internet list for parents of preterm children, and the author of a book on prematurity, I am in close contact with many families with very-low-birth-weight children. Our . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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