The Importance of Parenting Influence

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If you are a loving and supportive parent that provides a lot of unconditional love, maybe your child will be more successful. The evidence that there's a causal role of the parenting is really weak. People who have adopted kids often they just loved their kid, the kid turns out great but the kid seems to go in a different path than their biological kids.

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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