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The debate rages on about how much influence the environment has on a child’s behavior, and how much of a role heredity plays. Many parents cannot choose one over the other. They reconcile that the personality of their adolescent began forming when the child was a few months old.
Those same parents will also admit, however, that the environment they provided for that child helped to shape the good, and the bad parts of the child’s personality, already present. The same is true when you ask most adoptive parents about how they believe their adopted child will turn out.
Naturally, their adopted child may have different physical characteristics. However, adoptive parents will tell you that although the child has artistic talents they do not possess, they helped hone the child’s talent through encouragement.
To help prospective adoptive parents who lean toward heredity playing the largest role in a child’s development, they should do their homework. Because of the anonymity that sometimes comes with the adoption process, they may have to request professionals perform certain tests, such as behavioral, medical, or intelligence testing.
Prospective adopters that believe environment determines the type of adult a child will become, can use any information they obtain about a child they wish to adopt, in order to do what is best for the child in their home.
Couples seeking to adopt, whether they believe it is science or nature that plays a role in raising children, their mutual intent is to love and care for a child who inherited certain traits from their family, but have no family to grow up in, or to which they belong.
