Redefining the Science and Policy of Early Childhood Intervention Programs

David Olds and his team are to be applauded for creating the Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP) home-visiting program and for steadfastly following up with the participants in the Memphis randomized controlled trial. In 2 new “child”1 and “mother”2 articles, they report the impacts of NFP on children and mothers, respectively, when the children reach age 18.All too often in the field of home-visiting, observers want to decide that a program either...