September 30, 2007
It may not be as farfetched as you think.
In a report published by the Child Development Journal it seems that some of us were born to be bad. The study indicates that genes and not parents argumetative behavior may be the key in the odds of children becoming unruly with problems like bullying, skipping school and shoplifting.
Until recently research linked parents' marital problems to long term conduct issues with their children, meaning parents who are naturally argumentative pass on these traits to their children.
Marital discord between the parents does not seem to cause concise issues of bad behaviour in their children according to study author K. Paige Harden of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.
The study included 1,045 adult twins, some identical and some fraternal, and their children.
Bottom line... There may be no "argument" gene, but genes do influence personality traits, including those that make people more or less prone to confrontation.
Born To Be Bad? It Could Be In The Genes
Born To Be Bad?
