Having the same parents doesn't mean you experience the same parenting. Parents who have positive, healthy relationships with their primary caregivers are better able to read other people's feelings and control their own. Babies raised in environments of stress or deprivation will show far less activity in key areas of their brain. The authors argue that genetic genie may be out of the bottle but encouraging parents to rely on pologetic scores is absurd.
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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