One of the depressing facts that you pick up from the book “Blank Slate” is that current research tells us that the\u00a0influence of parental upbringing\u00a0on a child’s nature is approximately zero. Your genes have some effect on your son or daughter.\u00a0 The overall environment that he has been brought up in matters. But your own influence is negligible. Another way of stating this is that if you have a biological child and an adopted child, the difference between the two will be almost as great as the difference between your biological child and your neighbour’s child.<\/p>\n
Of course, there are many\u00a0studies that have established this effect, but\u00a0to me, the simplest verification came from the fact that I have inherited my social shyness from my father, even though he died when I was five.\u00a0 Another\u00a0example\u00a0seems to be Varun Gandhi.\u00a0 He must have been 2 years old<\/span>\u00a0 was 3 months old\u00a0 when\u00a0Sanjay Gandhi died in a plane crash,\u00a0but he still seems to have\u00a0managed to inherit\u00a0his father’s psychopathic \u00a0personality.\u00a0 The combined effect of his father’s genes and his current environment seems to have rendered irrelevant any effect of his mother’s upbringing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One of the depressing facts that you pick up from the book “Blank Slate” is that current research tells us that the\u00a0influence of parental upbringing\u00a0on a child’s nature is approximately zero. Your genes have some effect on your son or daughter.\u00a0 The overall environment that he has been brought up in matters. But your own […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[41,282,283],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3236"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3236"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3238,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3236\/revisions\/3238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}