About half of the differences we see in kid's psychological development can be explained by genetic differences. But these environmental differences aren't due to nurture. They're not due to systematic forces in the family that make kids in a family similar. A method that makes it easier to understand that is the adoption method. Parents and offspring share nature and nurture, but with adoption, you can separate those two. I think our relationship with our children should based on loving them rather than changing them. Instead of always trying to change them and moulding them into what we want them to be, doesn’tIt make sense about going with the genet flow and find out what they like to do and what
We delve back into the archive to 2018, when we held a debate getting to the heart of nature vs nurture. How much do our parents influence the people that we eventually turn out to be? We were joined by Professor of Behavioural Genetics Robert Plomin, the Developmental Clinical Psychologist Susan Pawlby, therapist, parenting counsellor and broadcaster Ann Pleshette Murphy, and Stuart Ritchie, lecturer in social genetics and developmental psychiatry and author of Science Fictions. Hosting the debate was Doctor and broadcaster, Dr Xand van Tulleken.
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