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• nostrademons 18y ago
  You can't draw that conclusion unless he has an adopted sibling or a biological sibling that was put up for adoption. Normal unadopted children share both their genes and their environment with their parents. When studies have been done on identical twins raised apart, they've shown that genetics matters far more than parental environment, with genes being responsible for close to 40% of the variance in a wide array of personality traits, parental nurturing responsible for about 10%, and the child's peer group responsible for the remaining 50%.