The Nurture Assumption
Why Children Turn Out the Way they Do
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11099556 |
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| Authors | Naomi Gerstel (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 174 |
| Publication date | 1999-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | The nurture assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do, Judith Rich Harris, 1998 |
| Venue | Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-3061 • E-ISSN: 1939-8638 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2654856 |
| OpenAlex | W1974333867 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKHow much credit do parents deserve when their children turn out welt? How much blame when they turn out badly? Judith Rich Harris has a message that will change parents' lives: The nurture assumption -- the belief that what makes children turn out the way they do, aside from their genes, is the way their parents bring them up -- is nothing more than a cultural myth. This electrifying book explodes some of our unquestioned beliefs about children and parents and gives us a radically new view of childhood.Harris looks with a fresh eye at the real lives of real children to show that it is what they experience outside the home, in the company of their peers, that matters most, Parents don't socialize children; children socialize children. With eloquence and humor, Judith Harris explains why parents have little power to determine the sort of people their children will become.The Nurture Assumption is an important and entertaining work that brings together insights from psychology, sociology, anthropology, primatology, and evolutionary biology to offer a startling new view of who we are and how we got that way
Biology · Nature versus nurture · Turn (biochemistry · Turn-taking · Cognitive Abilities and Testing · Communication · Early Childhood Education and Development · Genetics · Global Socioeconomic and Political Dynamics · Psychology
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