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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK How much credit do parents deserve when their children turn out welt? How much blame when they turn out badly? Judith Rich Harris has a message that will change parents' lives: The "nurture assumption" -- the belief that what makes children turn out the way they do, aside from their genes, is the way their parents bring them up -- is nothing more than a cultural myth. This electrifying book explodes some of our unquestioned beliefs about children and parents and gives us a radically new view of childhood. Harris looks with a fresh eye at the real lives of real children to show that it is what they experience outside the home, in the company of their peers, that matters most, Parents don't socialize children; children socialize children. With eloquence and humor, Judith Harris explains why parents have little power to determine the sort of people their children will become. The Nurture Assumption is an important and entertaining work that brings together insights from psychology, sociology, anthropology, primatology, and evolutionary biology to offer a startling new view of who we are and how we got that way.

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Author

Harris, Judith Rich; Pinker, Steven

Publisher

Foreword by Steven PinkerCopyright © 1998 by Judith Rich HarrisReprinted by permission of Free Press, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc., N.Y

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9781439101650

Category

science

Subjects

Family & Relationships, Sociology, Fiction

Rating

4.12 / 5 (55 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14