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There is no day, week, or even month at which one can say that all babies begin to walk. For several reasons, infants begin to walk at different ages. The “average” is 15 months. It is the same thing with talking. There is no one definite month when all babies start talking. This also applies to a great many other occurrences in infancy and childhood. That is why it is safer and more accurate to distinguish stages, epochs, or eras of development. Then, in normal situations, one can say the offspring develops certain skills, during this or that era. Even then, as development proceeds, one must allow for considerable individual differences. One should also allow for differences due to cultural requirements, but this exceeds the scope of this book. If one is curious about some of the differences which are due to cultural factors in societies that are vastly different from American society, he might read some of the works of the ever-popular Margaret Mead or Ruth Benedict.
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Mullahy, P., Melinek, M. (1983). The Transition from Infancy. In: Interpersonal Psychiatry. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-7292-9_3
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