The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do
- List Price: $26.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Free Press
- Publish date: 01/01/2002
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With a radical departure from traditional child-development theories, Judith Harris argues that parents are not the defining influence on children. Rather, almost from the start, our personality is shaped by the group we identify with -- i.e., the other kids in the playground.
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The Nurture Assumption challenges our most common beliefs about who we are and how we got that way. According to Harris, it's not our parents' fault; furthermore, parents should stop believing that they are wholly responsible for everything their child is and does. Accessible to all readers, yet profound in its implications, Harris's lively book shows that we were designed by evolution to be socialized in groups, not at home. And like the folk heroine Cinderella, the personality we develop in the company of our peers may be far more fulfilling than the one we are stuck with in the bosom of our nuclear family.
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