i've studied parenting in many different ways, observational studies, videotaped interactions between children. So i'm defining parenting in terms of the measures that people are using. There's two major factors, enots, a warmth dimension and a control, disciplined sort of factor. I'd like just to add that there is no word in the english, well, there is now, but the word parenting doesn't exist. And actually it rather negates thee i of a parent who is actually a man or a woman in an undeniable relationship with a child by reason of a biological fact. Am not parenting.
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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