Volume 45, Number 17 · November 5, 1998
Do Parents Count?
By Howard Gardner
The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do
by Judith Rich Harris, with a foreword by Steven Pinker
Simon and Schuster, 462 pp., $26.00
We all want to know how and why we got to be who we are. Parents have a special interest in answering the 'how' and 'why' questions with respect to their own children. In addressing the mysteries of human growth, traditional societies have invoked God, the gods, the fates, with luck sometimes thrown in. Shakespeare called our attention to the struggle between 'nature and nurture.'[1]
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