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After seeing how different an adopted child acted compared to the non adopted ones in a close family member's family, I believe a lot more in nature causing big
by novok 6y ago
After seeing how different an adopted child acted compared to the non adopted ones in a close family member's family, I believe a lot more in nature causing big differences in behavior vs. nurture. Even when you have your own kids, children born 1 or 2 years apart in the same family can have very different personalities.
People don't like it, because it's used to justify fatalistic write offs of people. I agree it's wrong to do that because people are often wrong in writing off people, especially the aggressively independent :)
- arrosenberg 6y agoAdopted and second children still represent different environments. If the adopted child wasn't adopted at birth, their formative years would greatly impact what is perceived as nature. Its a meme that parents are generally more cavalier and relaxed with later children than they are with the first, and that is a significant environmental variable. Nature definitely hardwires in some baseline chemistry, but those first couple of years have a huge impact on how a child will deal with that chemistry.
- sinker 6y agoYes nurture has an effect, but the current science suggests that our DNA has an even greater determination of who we are than we ever imagined, the degree of which is incredibly surprising and non-intuitive. It would suggest that we become who we are determined to be, no matter the early childhood variables. https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly93YWtpbmd1cC5saWJzeW4uY29tL3Jzcw&ep=14&episode=N2VmOTU5M2YtNTczYS00ZGQxLWJkMjUtYzgzNjJhYjA5NDQx https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly93YWtpbmd1cC5saW...