Baby, I was born this way

A newborn in 2019 is expected to live an average of 74.5 years with girls expected to live longer than boys, according to the Statistics Department.

Research says most kids fall under one of three categories: difficult, easy, or slow to warm up. So what does this tell us about the personalities of babies?

One of the most ambitious studies ever conducted took three decades to complete. That investigation is known in professional literature as the New York Longitudinal Study. The findings from this investigation, led by psychiatrists Stella Chess and Alexander Thomas, were reported in their excellent book for parents entitled Know Your Child.