Kyle Harrison
to-read
The Nurture Assumption
The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do
- Author
- Judith Rich Harris
- Published
- 1998
- Pages
- 462
- Recommended
- Once
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.