The Sunday Debate: Parenting Doesn’t Matter (Or Not As Much As You Think)

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🗓️ 19 June 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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We delve back into the archive to 2018, when we held a debate getting to the heart of nature vs nurture. How much do our parents influence the people that we eventually turn out to be? We were joined by Professor of Behavioural Genetics Robert Plomin, the Developmental Clinical Psychologist Susan Pawlby, therapist, parenting counsellor and broadcaster Ann Pleshette Murphy, and Stuart Ritchie, lecturer in social genetics and developmental psychiatry and author of Science Fictions. Hosting the debate was Doctor and broadcaster, Dr Xand van Tulleken. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:17.0	Welcome to Intelligent Squad. I'm Connor Boyle.
1:20.0	It's the Sunday debate and we're revisiting a conversation from 2018,
1:25.0	in which we got to the heart of nature versus nurture.
1:28.0	How much do our parents influence the people we turn out to be?
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