ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how central sociodemographic variables – socioecomonic status (SES) of the family, and maternal education, verbal intelligence, parenting knowledge, and age – relate to children’s General Intelligence and the four individual faculties. It investigates how maternal age related to various aspects of early parenting and found curvilinear effects between maternal age and several parenting variables. The chapter explores the roles of several major sociodemographic predictors, including SES of the family and maternal education, verbal intelligence, parenting knowledge, and age, in relation to children’s g and Fs. It suggests that the Hollingshead Index of family SES was positively related to g and all Fs. The Hollingshead Index was positively correlated with General Intelligence and the Numerate/Spatial, Verbal, Interpersonal, and Motor faculties. Taken independently, maternal education, verbal intelligence, and parenting knowledge each related to children’s intelligence. From the perspective of shared genetics, mothers with higher intelligence likely have children with higher intelligence.
