Good parenting is the way to go
This is the chapter that I least agree with. The author suggested that 50% of how a child turned out is genetic. Meanwhile, the way they are raised is responsible for the other half of how they are turned out. I think the relationship is more like 25% to 75%. I think genetic is only responsible for about 25% of how a child turns out. The parents a child have, and the environment where he’s raised is responsible for about 75% of how a child turned out. My disagreement with the author might stem from the fact I am a person with a high internal locus of control. i.e. I believe that I will be greatly responsible for how my children turn out when I become a parent. I don’t agree with the author’s point that moving a child out of certain environment to another really doesn’t matter. In actuality, the childhood friends, classmates, teachers, and neighbors are all going to have an impact on a child’s psyche. The environment where a child is raised is crucial in determining the child’s personality and character. Granted, the author made a good point, by saying a parent that tries to take certain steps to protect his/her child is a reflection of the type of parent he/she is. I just disagree when he says the steps that he/she undertakes are not what bring the results, but his character that is reflected in the decisions that he/she takes is. It is a combination of great judgment and great decisions that yield to great upbringing of a child.
Meanwhile, I do agree with author’s point about parents being afraid of things based on the gruesomeness that may be involved should they occur as opposed to the possibility of them occurring. The truth is generally people don’t think. They let their emotion makes decisions for them. Honestly, emotions don’t often lead to the best decisions.
2 comments:
I agree that a childs parents have a huge impact on whether or not the child will have a positive upbringing, and that the childs environment also has a big influence as well. The childs environment will have a huge impact, because you could raise a kid in a bad neighborhood with a bad drug problem and that child will have a much higher chance of getting involved with drugs. But if a child is brought up in a good neighborhood where the schools are good, and there isn't a drug problem than he/she will have a much better chance of staying away from trouble. There are too many variables in an environment and upbringing that can influence a childs life, which I believe makes the authors findings inaccurate.
I believe with you to some extent but I feel like it should be more 50/50. Lets say that there is a kid that is born to 2 brain surgeon, and another born to a couple of McDonald's employees. The kid with brain surgeons as parents is likely to come out with a higher IQ. However just like the abortion case if someone wants to change where they come from or say make it out then I believe that if they have enough drive and will, they will.
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