Harris: Parental influence is on the decline
This reference is used to annotate "I would never send my kids to school" (2017) by Piotr Wozniak
In today's urbanized societies, socialization gets its start in the nursery school or day-care center, gathers momentum in the same-age, same-sex peer groups of school-age children, and approaches asymptote in the mixed-sex crowds of adolescents. It is within these groups, according to GS theory [Group Socialization Theory], that the psychological characteristics a child is born with become permanently modified by the environment [...] GS theory can account for a growing body of data showing that the home environment has no lasting effects on psychological characteristics. The shared environment that leaves permanent marks on children's personalities is the environment they share with their peers [...] Children usually turn out all right because the environment that does have important and lasting effects is found with little variation in every society: the children's play group. There is an African saying, "It takes a village to raise a child." In a village, there are always enough children to form a group.
Title: Where Is the Child's Environment? A Group Socialization Theory of Development
Author: Judith Rich Harris