Oh, no!! I'm having a paradigmatic identity crisis! I am a boomer (born 1957: rock
on, dead Elvis) and the parent of a 12-year-old daughter. You would think that this is
all you'd need to know about me to know where I stand on the issue of "The Nurture
Assumption." Blaming my daughter's
Hello again -
In a message dated 2/1/2001 1:27:33 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
This is exactly where Harris says that parents have the strongest effect on
the development of their children. As I understand her, she is arguing that
parenting style and other "in home
Hello friends,
I am wondering why a more middle-of-the-road view on this question is not being
studied (or is it, and I am just clueless?)
That is, it makes little sense to say, however convincingly, that parents have
virtually NO influence on how their children turn out, and makes equally
Nancy wrote:
"Who one's parents are (genetically, in their social status/financial
resources, their values, the neighborhood they settle the family in, the
schools they send the kids to, etc.) almost certainly affects the type of
friends, clique, or crowd a child chooses."
This is exactly where
On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Weisskirch, Rob went:
... I think the real reason it received so much attention is because
it appeals to the Baby Boomer psych-types. [I am aware I am opening
up a can of generational worms]. For Boomer parents who have kids
who, well, uh, didn't turn out exactly how
