Kyle Harrison
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The Nurture Assumption

The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do
Author
Judith Rich Harris
Published
1998
Pages
462
Recommended
Once
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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 saw it: A bare Amazon link saved in the note.

Connections

  • Judith Rich Harris — author.
  • No Two Alike — her follow-up, already in the anti-library.
  • Parenting — the assumption under attack.