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How children are parented makes more difference than anything else. Having 'good' parents vs. 'bad' determines not just what is needed to have a good life, but
by 11thEarlOfMar 6y ago
How children are parented makes more difference than anything else. Having 'good' parents vs. 'bad' determines not just what is needed to have a good life, but in many cases, whether one even has the emotional capacity for feeling good for an ongoing period.
- throwaway_pdp09 6y agoHmm. That sounds familiar. I guess we share a similar experience.
- adolph 6y agoCurrent thought about parenting (environmental effects) vs parents (trait heritability) is that one's parents has more a role than how one is parented. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature_versus_nurture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature_versus_nurture
- slumpt_ 6y agoIt depends on the trait in question and nearly always is a mix of both environmental and genetic factors.
- agumonkey 6y agoo/ I'd go even further and weight-in the whole lineage. I believe my grand parents on both side were damaged, leading to damaged parents, producing a very dysfunctional me. It's like driving with the brakes on.. I speculate that the efficiency of not having to fight toxicity constantly leads to a thick rain of happy. To the point that if I have children, I'd be sure to regularly send them away so they can see the world outside my sphere of influence.
- ZainRiz 6y agoSounds like a recursive problem. What if the parents were parented badly and thus lack emotional capacity. What if they were parented badly because the grand parents were parented badly?