The Nurture Assumption
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The Nurture Assumption
| Full title | The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do |
|---|---|
| Author | Judith Rich Harris |
| Published | 1998 |
| Pages | 462 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Harris’s argument — made from outside the academy, and hard to dismiss — that parents matter far less to how children turn out than the assumption holds, and that the peer group is doing most of the socialising. |
Where I heard about it
- A saved Amazon link — I saved the link without a note of who pointed me to it.
Connections
- Judith Rich Harris — author.
- No Two Alike — her follow-up, already in the anti-library.
- Parenting — the assumption under attack.
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