Whats a good site that argues nature over nurture?

Question

millions of students over the years have been asked to write an essay in psychology class. The question being "Nature or nurture"

Surely there must be somewhere that has seperated all of the papers according to the choices they made.

Answer 1

I don't know of a site such as the one you mentioned, but I do know that if you go to www.zerotothree.org you will find scientific discussion of the role of nurturing on the development of brain synpases and how the failure to nurture the right type of brain connections during the first few years of life can result in the destruction of the cells requires to form those connections and can result in things like inappropriate brain responses to stress and even immune system problems. Since science has apparently seen the impact of nurturing on something like the immune system that would imply that even a genetic predisposition to certain health problems may be overcome by a more efficient immune system.

I found the section by searching, "effects of maternal nurturing on children" or something like that, so if you get to the site and are looking for the piece that's what it would be under.

As someone with one adopted child (from infancy - adopting older children is a different thing) and two biological children, and as someone who has known some adopted people, I am convinced that nurturing has made my son a completely different person than he would have been had he remained with his biological mother.

If you do any research into the impact of nurturing on brain development (personality, brain response, types of intelligence associated with side of the brain, etc.) you will probably get an excellent insight into the science of nurturing.

A couple of years ago before he died Peter Jennings did a report on genetics. At the time he said it was believed that genetics are about 30% responsible for "what we are", but I believe there may have been a comment that it could be discovered that genetics are even less responsible.

If you consider that even when parents have had a history of one thing or another there is the chance that what they had or were was the result of nurturing, and that if their children develop into people who have or do the same thing it could be the result of someone's not having been "nurtured out of" what either appears to be a genetic predisposition or what may have turned into a "genetic predisposition" as the result of nurturing, then you can see why it is very possible that genetics are far less responsible for what people are than is today understood.

Answer 2

Psychology class? When I was in college, that question was discussed in Sociology.

Answer 3

There isn't one. Legitimate scientists know that the two are both important--its not either/or.

Answer 4

Well its not the BIBLE for sure and not parents.