How does parenting affect upbringing of children?
WSJ article here about how twins raised apart from each other revealed very little effects of parenting on their eventual becoming.
i.e. adult twins were mirror identicals to each other even though they were raised by different parents.
Parents’ main rationale is that their effort is an investment in their children’s future; they’re sacrificing now to turn their kids into healthy, smart, successful, well-adjusted adults. But according to decades of twin research, their rationale is just, well, wrong. High-strung parenting isn’t dangerous, but it does make being a parent a lot more work and less fun than it has to be.
Note to parents: relax
Note to growing children: your future is your responsibility
Note to adults: if you’re wondering, it probably wasn’t your parents fault
caveat: I think this mostly relates to mostly “normal” parenting, i.e. not considering traumatic life-changing experiences like nuclear attack from aliens, etc.
via @globalmoxie
