Does parenting even matter"
In 1980, a popular news story swept the US media. It was about three college-age boys?Eddy, David and Bobby?who, through a series of coincidences, had discovered they were identical triplets who?d been separated at birth and adopted.
After being joyfully reunited, the handsome, affable teenagers were caught up in a whirlwind of public attention. They did the daytime talk-show circuit and laughed as interviewers marvelled over their similarities: They all smoked the same brand of cigarettes, had the same favourite colour and even liked similar women. They were, in many ways, seemingly indistinguishable, despite having grown up in entirely different families on different sides of the country.
But as a recent documentary, Three Identical Strangers, explores, it turns out there was a chilling secret at the heart of this feel-good story. The boys were being used as subjects in a sociological experiment aimed at testing the age-old question of which matters more: Nature or nurture" Have you ever agonized over whether you should even bother nagging an unmusical child to practise piano" Or wondered why two siblings raised in the same home can turn out to be so wildly different" Perhaps you?re starting to suspect that all those hours you spent straining organic parsnips, attending sing-and-sign classes and smiling over flash cards didn?t actually make much difference to the person your kid is turning out to be. If so, you?ve got nature versus nurture on the brain.
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