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- catalog abstract ""How much credit do parents deserve when their children turn out well? How much blame when they turn out badly? This book explodes some of our deepest beliefs about children and parents and gives us something radically new to put in their place. With eloquence and wit, Judith Harris explains why parents have little power to determine the sort of people their children become. It is what children experience outside the home, in the company of their peers, that matters most. Parents don't socialize children: children socialize children." "Harris looks with a fresh eye at the real lives of real children and shows that the nurture assumption is nothing more than a cultural myth. Why do the children of immigrant parents end up speaking in the language and accent of their peers, not of their parents? Why are twins reared together no more alike than twins raised apart? Why does a boy who spends his first eight years with a nanny and his next ten years in boarding school nevertheless turn out just like his father? The nurture assumption cannot provide an answer to these questions. Judith Harris can." "Through no fault of their own, good parents sometimes have bad kids. Harris offers parents wise counsel on what they can and cannot do, and relief from guilt for those whose best efforts have somehow failed to produce a happy, well-behaved, self-confident child."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b10893779.
- catalog coverage "United States".
- catalog created "c1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "c1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1998.".
- catalog description ""How much credit do parents deserve when their children turn out well? How much blame when they turn out badly? This book explodes some of our deepest beliefs about children and parents and gives us something radically new to put in their place. With eloquence and wit, Judith Harris explains why parents have little power to determine the sort of people their children become. It is what children experience outside the home, in the company of their peers, that matters most. Parents don't socialize children: children socialize children." "Harris looks with a fresh eye at the real lives of real children and shows that the nurture assumption is nothing more than a cultural myth. Why do the children of immigrant parents end up speaking in the language and accent of their peers, not of their parents? Why are twins reared together no more alike than twins raised apart? Why does a boy who spends his first eight years with a nanny and his next ten years in boarding school nevertheless turn out just like his father? The nurture assumption cannot provide an answer to these questions. Judith Harris can." "Through no fault of their own, good parents sometimes have bad kids. Harris offers parents wise counsel on what they can and cannot do, and relief from guilt for those whose best efforts have somehow failed to produce a happy, well-behaved, self-confident child."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 419-450) and index.".
- catalog description "Nurture is not the same as environment -- The nature (and nurture) of the evidence -- Nature, nurture, and none of the above -- Separate worlds -- Other times, other places -- Human nature -- Us and them -- In the company of children -- The transmission of culture -- Gender rules -- Schools of children-- Growing up -- Dysfunctional families and problem kids-- What parents can do -- The nurture assumption on trial.".
- catalog extent "xviii, 462 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0684844095".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "c1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Free Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "305.231 21".
- catalog subject "Child Development psychology".
- catalog subject "Child Rearing psychology".
- catalog subject "Child development United States.".
- catalog subject "Child rearing United States.".
- catalog subject "Children and the environment United States.".
- catalog subject "HQ772 .H353 1998".
- catalog subject "Nature and nurture United States.".
- catalog subject "Parenting".
- catalog subject "Social Environment.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Nurture is not the same as environment -- The nature (and nurture) of the evidence -- Nature, nurture, and none of the above -- Separate worlds -- Other times, other places -- Human nature -- Us and them -- In the company of children -- The transmission of culture -- Gender rules -- Schools of children-- Growing up -- Dysfunctional families and problem kids-- What parents can do -- The nurture assumption on trial.".
- catalog title "The nurture assumption : why children turn out the way they do / Judith Rich Harris.".
- catalog type "text".