Judith Rich Harris, in "the Nurture Assumption:
Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do," discussed in Skolnick and Skolnick's article, "Family in Transition, 2007," asserts that
a. parents have very little impact on their children's development
b. an unfortunate childhood dooms a person to an unhappy adulthood.
c. genetics have very little impact on children's development.
d. child rearing is like writing on a blank slate.
A
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