THE NURTURE ASSUMPTION
Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do
Judith Rich Harris
The Free Press, 1998
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: Readers of this book should understand the evidence for the importance of peer influence, and the limits of parental nurturing influence, in child development.
Psychologists have always assumed that nurturing, the influence of parents on children, is the most important factor in child development. Judith Rich Harris assembles evidence from psychology, anthropology, cultural history, behavior genetics, and primatology to show that the influence of peers is greater than that of parents. Children, regardless of their parents' origins, speak like their peers. Research on the effects of nurturing have shown disappointing results, but psychologists have held nurturance as too important to believe their own findings.
Judith Rich Harris is a former writer of college textbooks on child development who realized that much of what she had been telling her readers was wrong. Her theoretical article on development won the George Miller award from the American Psychological Association.
13 CE credits; 391 pages
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