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Author:

Harris, Judith Rich.

Title:

The nurture assumption : why children turn out the way they do / Judith Rich Harris.

Edition:

1st Touchstone ed.

Publisher:

Touchstone,

Copyright Date:

1999

Description:

xviii, 462 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Child development--United States.
Child rearing--United States.
Nature and nurture--United States.
Children and the environment--United States.

Notes:

Originally published: New York : Free Press, 1998. Includes bibliographical references (p. 419-450) and index.

Contents:

Nurture is not the same as environment -- The nature (and nurture) of the evidence -- Nature, nurture, and none of the above -- Separate worlds -- Other times, other places -- Human nature -- Us and them -- In the company of children -- The transmission of culture -- Gender rules -- Schools of children-- Growing up -- Dysfunctional families and problem kids-- What parents can do -- The nurture assumption on trial.

ISBN:

0684857073 (pbk.)
9780684857077 (pbk.)
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Locations:

UWAX953 -- Waldorf University - Luise V. Hanson Library (Forest City)