the unprejudiced observer -- innate parenting?
Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2002 7:29 pm
The research on effects of birth order on life experience for children
corroborates strongly how much parenting skills are learned, although the
nurturing response, especially in mothers, has also a hormonal component.
Parents do things with first children that they know are not necessary by
the time subsequent children appear. This learning of parenting skill has a
significant and documented result in the birth order effects that have been
shown to influence most children.
Rosemary C. Hyde
corroborates strongly how much parenting skills are learned, although the
nurturing response, especially in mothers, has also a hormonal component.
Parents do things with first children that they know are not necessary by
the time subsequent children appear. This learning of parenting skill has a
significant and documented result in the birth order effects that have been
shown to influence most children.
Rosemary C. Hyde