The Cellar - View Single Post - Nature/Nurture: Moma's Boys -made or born that way?

glatt · 06-02-2015, 08:39 AM

Parents generally do the best they can, but are their parenting actions the product of nature or nurture? And then what impact do those actions have on the kid? How much of who they are is nature versus nurture?

I need to chart this shit out. So let's say 50% of a kid's behavior is due to nature, and 50% is nurture, but of that 50% nurture, the parents who are responsible for the nurturing owe 50% of their behavior to nature and 50% to nurture. So really, of the kid's 50% nurture, half of that is really from the parent's nature. So the kid is 75% nature after all. And then what do you do to account for the grandparents? and their grandparent? You have to start getting in to mathematical limits and shit like that, and it's been too many years since I took that stuff. Seems to me it works out to being all nature in the end.

06-02-2015, 08:39 AM	#6
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	Parents generally do the best they can, but are their parenting actions the product of nature or nurture? And then what impact do those actions have on the kid? How much of who they are is nature versus nurture? I need to chart this shit out. So let's say 50% of a kid's behavior is due to nature, and 50% is nurture, but of that 50% nurture, the parents who are responsible for the nurturing owe 50% of their behavior to nature and 50% to nurture. So really, of the kid's 50% nurture, half of that is really from the parent's nature. So the kid is 75% nature after all. And then what do you do to account for the grandparents? and their grandparent? You have to start getting in to mathematical limits and shit like that, and it's been too many years since I took that stuff. Seems to me it works out to being all nature in the end.