Nature or nurture? what do you think?

Answer 1

i think it depends on the individual,,,,, so i would guess nature is at the core of it, you see some who go threw horrible conditions as youth, and come out fine,,, yet others in good conditions, come out horrible,,,,,,,, nurturing can bring out the best in all,,,,,, and lack of it can bring out the worst,,,, but i truly believe there must be something there to bring out
ps: often when we think of nurture, we are not thinking of the individual, but of the society that we live in concepts,,,,,,, each child needs to be recognized, and what might be nurturing and fulfilling their potential to one, wouldnt to another
for example, i saw a program about a very loving , nurturing family, this family was outgoing,,,, sports inclined, also showed physical affection to each other,, hugs etc, of their 4 children, 3 were like them, but one was a more quiet child, their exuberance caused this child,, to withdraw,, from the noise, from the affection,,,,,,, they nurtured (in their concept of it) their child into a serious condition

Answer 2

A bit of both. Intelligence/nature. Socialization/nurture.

Answer 3

I lean towards nurture.

I don't, however, think you can nurture a psychopath into being a warm and loving person. But I do think that someone born with the potential to be warm and loving can, through lack of nurture become a psychopath.

Answer 4

I was a firm believer in nurture over nature but as my outlook becomes bleaker I'm starting to lean toward nature a littl ebit aswell as nurture

Answer 5

Nature.

Answer 6

This is like the Creation or Evolution debate. I believe in Creation through Evolution. I believe in Nurturing through Nature. You cannot have yin without yang.

Answer 7

I have a friend who was adopted, and she definitely has many similarities to her adoptive parents, and I notice a lot of traits she's picked up from them.
She never knew her real parents, all she knows is that her mother was very young when she had her, and smoked and drank during her pregnancy. My friend was born prematurely but other than that is perfectly fine and extremely smart. But knowing that, I can also see some similarites she has to her biological mother as well. Overall she is a very responsible person, but sometimes she makes rash decisions about certain things, something I believe she picked up from her birth mother.

So to answer your question I have to say both. In my friend's case nurture was stronger, but traces of her nature remain as well.

Answer 8

Both. It is nature and nurture together.

Answer 9

since gay children can come from hetero parents, conservative children from liberals (and vice versa) marvelously creative people from the worst urban ghettos, and psycopaths from affluent suburbs, then it would have to be nature...however, experience can seriously influence the direction natural talents are sent towards, and yet it can be said the ability to be influenced is innate, so once again we come back to nature as the principal...i suppose it can be summed up as thus; if you feed a child a steady diet of bananas he (or she) will not become a chimpanzee unless already leaning in a decidedly simian direction anyway, which could explain what's wrong with all those people in government...perhaps bananas should be removed from the congressional commisary menu (sorry, hillary!)

Answer 10

Must it be one or the other? Why not a predisposition nurtured through empirical experiences?