The Effects of Single Parents on Their Kids

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Paul: The question that people are arguing about is matter for the shaping of the kids, personality, proclivities, intelligence, happiness, and those sorts of things. He says single parents involving people leaving the house have plain genetic confounds. Paul: I think it's foolish and counterproductive to think you're going to change their real nature. And maybe we should think about raising kids that way.

As parents we like to think we have an impact on our children - their future, their happiness, the kinds of people they turn out to be. But are we deluded? Dave and Tamler are joined by empathy's kryponite, the great Paul Bloom, to talk about Judith Rich Harris's view that parents matter a lot less than you might think (while genes and peer groups matter a lot more than you might think) .

Plus, what the connection between art and morality? Should we support "cancel culture"? Is it wrong to play Michael Jackson's P.Y.T. (spell it out) on the radio? What about the Jackson 5? And what about art that is itself immoral? You're not gonna believe this but Louis CK gets mentioned.

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Special Guest: Paul Bloom.

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