Psychology

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the necessary environment. Unfortunately problems arise when the child’s tendencies clash with that of the parents or do not live up to the parent’s expectations. Also, if the child is not provided with an environment that promotes their inborn traits, then there is a poor person-to-environment match. This could lead to many roadblocks later in life.
Moving on, siblings share a remarkable fifty percent of their genes. Still their genotypes lead them to ask different questions and receive different answers even from the same environment. Parents of more than one child treat their children differently. Siblings each require a unique response due to differences already present between them. As Robert Plomin states, “ It’s the experiences that siblings don’t share that matter, not the ones they do.”

As far as raising kids, it’s how a parent reacts to a child’s inborn characteristics that counts. If the child’s genotype is matched to a corresponding environment, then the parent ...

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