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Gladwell summarized that Harris argued parental influence on children's outcomes is far smaller than commonly believed.
There was a great book written that I wrote about at the time, 30 years ago, it was written by, called Do Parents Matter by Judith Harris. And she basically summed up all of the evidence about what im...
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Gladwell summarized that Harris argued parental influence on children's outcomes is far smaller than commonly believed.
There was a great book written that I wrote about at the time, 30 years ago, it was written by, called Do Parents Matter by Judith Harris. And she basically summed up all of the evidence about what impact parental child raising has.
The answer is, the evidence says not a lot. Basically, if you're feeding your kid and they have a roof over their heads and you're not terrifying them every night, it doesn't matter what you do.