Why Parenting May Not Matter and Why Most Social Science Research is Probably Wrong
24th April 2017
I want you to consider the possibility that your parents did not shape you as a person. Despite how it feels, your mother and father (or whoever raised you) likely imprinted almost nothing on your personality that has persisted into adulthood. Pause for a minute and let that heresy wash across your synapses. It flies in the face of common sense, does it not? In fact, it’s the type of claim that is unwise to make unless you have some compelling evidence to back it up. Even then it will elicit the ire of many. Psychologists especially get touchy about this subject. I do have evidence, though, and by the time we’ve strolled through the menagerie of reasons to doubt parenting effects, I think another point will also become evident: the problems with parenting research are just a symptom of a larger malady plaguing the social and health sciences. A malady that needs to be dealt with.
April 24th, 2017 at 18:23
Can eugenics research be far behind?
April 26th, 2017 at 04:48
‘Progressives’ have already been there, done that, under Margaret Sanger and Planned Parenthood.