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Parental genetics are far more important than parenting style in determining what kind of person you turn out to be.

And the "nurture" that matters is your peers, not your parents.

Skeptical? I highly recommend this book-length treatment of the research literature: https://www.amazon.com/Nurture-Assumption-Children-Revised-U...

Unless they are doing twin & adoption studies (hard!), attachment researchers are conflating parenting practices (these warm and loving parents had a warm & loving kid!) with genetics.

⬐ jcoffland

The nature vs nurture argument is not going to be settled by one book. I can see if you raised some shitty kids how the "it's mostly nature" theory would be attractive. I believe it's a combination of both nature and nurture.

⬐ AstralStorm

However, nature feeds into nurture and not the other way around.

Is you tried raising a disabled child or one with extreme variant of personality you would know that such conditions tend to enact sets of behaviour in the environment and parents. Generally not conducive to proper upbringing one way or another.

Not every day you see a major publication questioning natalism.

See also Judith Rich Harris' The Nurture Assumption: http://www.amazon.com/The-Nurture-Assumption-Children-Revise...

You are largely correct: http://www.amazon.com/The-Nurture-Assumption-Children-Revise...

The Nurture Assumption -> http://www.amazon.com/The-Nurture-Assumption-Children-Revise...