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| | Nurture Assumption |
 | | Harris oversimplifies the parent child relationship and the meaning of nurturance; second, I think that she relies too heavily upon questionable anthropological data; third, I think she underestimates some of the basic assumptions of the developmental research. |
 | | In the same way, nurturing your child may not be strongly correlated with adult adjustment, since many factors affect this final outcome, not the least of which is all the decisions your grown children will make when they leave home. |
 | | However, if nurturance is assumed to include more behaviors, coming from more than just one's parents, that serve more as a preventative agent for adult problems than a guarantee of adult happiness and adjustment, then the assumption most of us make remains. |
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