The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do
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This groundbreaking book, a Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times notable pick, rattled the psychological establishment when it was first published in 1998 by claiming that parents have little impact on their children's development. In this tenth anniversary edition of The Nurture Assumption, Judith Harris has updated material throughout and provided a fresh introduction. Combining insights from psychology, sociology, anthropology, primatology, and evolutionary biology, she explains how and why the tendency of children to take cues from their peers works to their evolutionary advantage. This electrifying book explodes many of our unquestioned beliefs about children and parents and gives us a radically new view of childhood. Nation - Ann Crittenden Buried in the fine print. . .are so many caveats that the book's thesis virtually evaporates. . . .What does affect a child's . . .development?. . . .Harris' answer: peers. . . .I can't help thinking about. . .young men brought down on the battlefield. Fallen among their comrades. . .the wounded warriors cry out not for their buddies but for their mothers.
ForewordPreface1"Nurture" Is Not the Same as "Environment"12The Nature (and Nurture) of the Evidence143Nature, Nurture, and None of the Above334Separate Worlds545Other Times, Other Places786Human Nature977Us and Them1238In the Company of Children1469The Transmission of Culture18310Gender Rules21811Schools of Children24012Growing Up26413Dysfunctional Families and Problem Kids28914What Parents Can Do32815The Nurture Assumption on Trial350App. 1Personality and Birth Order365App. 2Testing Theories of Child Development379Notes393References419Index451
