What I have been saying, from Nature-Nurture-Nietzsche. We have long assumed that how we parent has a large effect on children. Meh. Remember that parents contribute genes long before, and genes hang around in the child much longer, not to mention 24/7/365.
Inconsistent parental discipline is linked to greater aggression in children. But does the former cause the latter? It seems not. A new behavior-genetics paper finds that much of the link is due to genetic confounding: The same gene variants associated with inconsistent parental discipline are also linked to childhood aggression. Moreover, to the extent that the link is environmental, it seems that children’s aggression leads to inconsistent discipline, rather than the other way around.
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I’m fairly sure that is what you have been saying all along.
ReplyDeleteSo of course they are correct, and of course the research supports this.
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