.@Edsall is so helpful for understanding our growing class divide, which now drives our politics:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/20/opinion/how-fear-of-falling-explains-the-love-of-trump.html …pic.twitter.com/xiqizbjopB
Yet, as @bryan_caplan argued in 'Selfish reasons to have more kids', intense biparental investment doesn't make much diff to kids outcomes.
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Or as Judith R. Harris puts it: parenting don't actually matter a lot at all (The Nurture Assumptipn), it's mostly about the peer groups
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From what I've read: Genes > Peers > Parenting It *is* difficult to believe how little difference parenting makes.
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Yes, measurable outcomes. The same mentality that prioritises those above what normies care about generates much of what you rail against.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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When does parenting make a diff? Only in cases of extreme neglect/abuse? U wld think extremes the other way would produce positive outcomes
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