Nurture Plus Nature

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from the nineteenth century on into the twentieth, but now a new
and united psychology world acknowledges both theories equally. It is imagined,
today, that the explanation of our behavioral characteristics originates from
both our heredity, and the environment in which we were raised.
This report supports the theory that both aspects of nurture, with the
addition of nature are involved in and explain our complete behaviors. Many
studies and experiments have been conducted in recent years of psychology to
give this combined idea its appealing thesis. A great deal of research and
experimentation has been conducted in order to solve the puzzling results that
derive from situational differences in being raised. The different causes and
effects of various situations, focus on the actual importance, and necessity of
proper nurturing in childhood development (Turecki). Studies on the early
developing years in children show how effects of various environmental
situations can cause ...

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of this erratic situational difference will result in a inner-conflict
between a child's hereditary instincts and environmental behavior. Although the
factors of genetics may have a small deciding component to sexual orientation,
psychologist John Money, concluded that "sexual orientation is not under the
direct governance of chromosomes and genes" (Rathus p.367-368). Children from
these conditions have usually been found to acquire a more admissible attitude
towards homosexuals through this altered environmental upbringing. However,
children raised in these same conditions may, or may not display homosexual
tendencies determined by both genetic factors and environmental ...

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