Do you believe in Tabula Rasa?

[Anime Waifu NFT collector]

To see why the blank slate is not true google evolutionary psychology, it's an entire field of science, also you are creating a false dichotomy when you say that it's either blank slate or having a pre-progammed personality from birth.

 

[Lemmingwiser]

Ignoring the spicier racial case. The sadder examples are children of criminals being adopted by normal families even from infant stage. Those children will very likely grow to be fucked up like their birth parents. Usually repeating the same mistake.

I definitely think that's true. At one point, it was more of a suspicion (if also backed by twin study data)
I once talked to a childless nurse who spoke glowlingly about her nurse friend that adopted two children, both from a different addict prostitute, one going to prison. the other dying.
When I pried a little about if she still had good contact with them, it turned out that she had broken contact with her foster son after he pushed her down the stairs in anger, and her foster daughter was at least doing well, if dealing with mild addictive tendencies.
She immediately started saying both must be because of the drug use while in utero. I guess my questions weren't as subtle as I had thought.

 

[Anime Waifu NFT collector]

I definitely think that's true. At one point, it was more of a suspicion (if also backed by twin study data)
I once talked to a childless nurse who spoke glowlingly about her nurse friend that adopted two children, both from a different addict prostitute, one going to prison. the other dying.
When I pried a little about if she still had good contact with her, it turned out that she had broken contact with her foster son after he pushed her down the stairs in anger, and her foster daughter was at least doing well, if dealing with mild addictive tendencies.
She immediately started saying both must be because of the drug use while in utero. I guess my questions weren't as subtle as I had thought.

If there is no data for this trend then it's just personal anecdotes that could as well be made up stories because we are on the internet.

 

[Unarmed Gunman]

Tabula Rasa sounds like a Lebanese dish. It would go great with some lamb kofta.

 

[Lemmingwiser]

If there is no data for this trend then it's just personal anecdotes that could as well be made up stories because we are on the internet.

There is data for this trend and it's called twin studies. For example, biological parents have a much bigger effect when compared to the parents that actually raised the kid, on whether a kid is a smoker, drinker, high or low iq, and so on. The effect is about 50-65% genetic. The effect of the adoptive parents 10%. The rest undefined/unknown.

But studies you can easily look up without a forum post, but my personal anecdotes... while you can question the authenticity, are at least a unique contribution that you couldn't have found with a google scholar search.

And I do my best to tell the truth. For example, I was exposing my lack of tact in that anecdote, but kept it in, because that's what happened.

 

[Lord of the Large Pants]

No, though I do believe that early life nurture is a much bigger factor than nature. Is IS their culture, and their culture sucks.