Midterm Paper Begley, S. (1998). The Parent Trap. Newsweek, Sept.7, 52-59. The article I chose was taken from Newsweek, titled, “The Parent Trap.” The article adressed the age-old debate over nature versus nurture, highlighting theories of the author of a controversial book, “The Nuture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do; Parents Matter Less Than You Think and Peers Matter More.” Judith Rich Harris, the author of the book, argues against the belief that …showed first 75 words of 1497 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1497 total…points to make, but a lot of them I think are too scetchy and are based on too much opinion and personal experience with her own children. She takes an extreme position based on a limited set of data and doesn’t back herself up enough. I don’t believe the claim that parents have no infuence over what their children become, I believe we just don’t know exactly how parents shape their child.