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Writer's Block: Nature v. nurture
Jun. 5th, 2010 05:02 pm[Error: unknown template qotd]
...ask me again when I've studied more psychology and read the couple of books I have on the subject :)
But even though I haven't studied much on the subject, I think my opinion at the moment is that it is more environment (nurture) rather than genetics (nature). I work as admin for a social work department, and time and time again you see the children of those who have previously had social services involvement being referred due to their parenting of their own children. I can also look at the parents of myself and my friends and sort of see why we've turned out why we have. Of course there are always exceptions (and it could be argued that maybe its something in the people's genes which make them bad parents, not just the bad parenting they've recieved themselves), but generally I'd say "blame the parents" every time, haha :)
The BBC's Child of Our Time project / programmes will be so interesting to find out how the children are being brought up, their family circumstances, affects them later in life.
A very interesting subject though, and I'm looking forward to reading more on it :)
...ask me again when I've studied more psychology and read the couple of books I have on the subject :)
But even though I haven't studied much on the subject, I think my opinion at the moment is that it is more environment (nurture) rather than genetics (nature). I work as admin for a social work department, and time and time again you see the children of those who have previously had social services involvement being referred due to their parenting of their own children. I can also look at the parents of myself and my friends and sort of see why we've turned out why we have. Of course there are always exceptions (and it could be argued that maybe its something in the people's genes which make them bad parents, not just the bad parenting they've recieved themselves), but generally I'd say "blame the parents" every time, haha :)
The BBC's Child of Our Time project / programmes will be so interesting to find out how the children are being brought up, their family circumstances, affects them later in life.
A very interesting subject though, and I'm looking forward to reading more on it :)
