1.   A child May, for instance, be born with serious handicaps or developmental problems requiring extended periods of care.

2.   Children with health or developmental problems may need a higher standard of parental care and a reasonable parent would be expected to provide this.

3.   According to the agency, the ingestion of even small amounts of lead has been linked to severe brain disorders and developmental problems in young children.

4.   All those factors make a mother more likely to deliver a low-weight infant, and such babies are at risk for developmental problems.

5.   Cloned mice can become obese and have other developmental problems.

6.   Developmental problems that such babies are born with may be compounded by the way they are treated at home.

7.   First- and last-born chimps have the highest risk of developmental problems, so they are by far the most likely to be left-handed.

8.   House dust can also contain heavy metals, such as particles of lead from paint, and this can cause health and developmental problems in children, she adds.

9.   It was widely believed there was a direct cause-and-effect relationship between prenatal crack exposure and a specific set of birth defects and developmental problems.

10.   Jacoby hopes to start a dolphin therapy program in which children with developmental problems such as autism can interact with the animals.