John Donvan
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2,077 appearances
13 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 18 Sep
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We have two debaters arguing for this resolution, Nancy Siegel and Ron.
Robert Pluman.
They are arguing that parenting is a very nice thing to experience.
They are also saying that it is necessary to life.
They are not saying that it doesn't play a role at all.
They are saying, however, that it is far less significant than most people tend to assume.
Just some statistics I'll throw in.
There are right now over 50 parenting podcasts.
Forbes estimated the market.
For millennial mothers stands at $46 billion today.
Uh only yesterday when we checked, half of the Amazon's fifty best selling books are either books for kids or books for parents.
And none of these, uh very few of these actually have any sort of focus on DNA.
So what we're talking about is overrated, com uh overrated in the framework of general assumptions that parenting uh is is uh quite influential or
Or, as Robert Pluman said, genetics is underrated.
He points out that his research suggests that 50% of the influence on who children turn turn out to be comes from parenting, and that the other 50% is basically random.
What parents are doing is not something that is consistent and particularly not something that can be measured.
They are ruling out, of course, the impact of extreme situations.
Extreme poverty, extreme abuse, as not having any sort of significant impact on the child through environmental cause.
But they say that by and large that the DNA factor has been underrated, that it's at 50% plus.
And they also talk extensively about twin studies, pointing out the elegance and the logic of twin studies and the appeal they have for the very simple and beautifully beautiful.
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