of adopted children were also widely reported many years ago, and inferences of genetic factors in development. Still, for many years, thinking remained largely of of socialization factors as though they were in no In recent years, however, there has been more sophisticated work of socialization research into a more broad- : were routinely drawn from both twin and adoption studies concerning the importance compartmentalized, and readers continued to believe in both the importance genetic factors and the importance way incompatible. more popular book The Nurture Assumption (1998) attracted a flurry of media atten- tion to the issues. These authors have drawn together the findings from some well- known studies of parenting effects and findings from behavior genetics to make the following claims: 1. The connections that studies have found between the way parents deal with their

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of adopted children were also widely reported many years ago, and inferences of genetic factors in development. Still, for many years, thinking remained largely of of socialization factors as though they were in no In recent years, however, there has been more sophisticated work of socialization research into a more broad-

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were routinely drawn from both twin and adoption studies concerning the importance compartmentalized, and readers continued to believe in both the importance genetic factors and the importance way incompatible. more popular book The Nurture Assumption (1998) attracted a flurry of media atten- tion to the issues. These authors have drawn together the findings from some well- known studies of parenting effects and findings from behavior genetics to make the following claims: 1. The connections that studies have found between the way parents deal with their

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