Does anyone else feel as if most of these studies are kind of just navel gazing? Like someone just needs to fill their time with busy work and so here's an easy academic job they can do that doesn't really give any new information?
If genetics/parental upbringing had very little to do with child outcomes then the entire concept of parenting would be irrelevant.
You could just choose any partner, have a child, leave them to fend for themselves on the street, it'd all be down to random chance and then suddenly 50% of those kids end up in the 50th percentile or above academically, financially, whatever metric you choose.
I would intuitively need an incredibly, incredibly strong proof to show the opposite were true, on par with someone telling me that in their city gravity runs backwards or something.
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