Intelligence Squared US: Is Parenting Overrated?

Specials | Dec 11, 2019

What shapes us more: our DNA, or the way we’re raised? The nature-versus-nurture debate has drawn disagreement for thousands of years, and emerging genetic research indicates that the scale may be tipping away from parenting and toward biology; but not all trust the research. Is parenting, and all the time and resources that go into it, overrated?

Intelligence Squared's Is Parenting Overrated? with debaters - Robert Plomin, Professor of Behavioral Genetics, King’s College London; Nancy Segal, Professor of Psychology, California State University, Fullerton & Director, Twin Studies Center; Paige Harden, Psychology Professor, University of Texas; Ann Pleshette Murphy, Author & Parenting Expert.

Airs Saturday, December 14 at 10 pm on AM 820.

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