...because we already got our answer, from observing the triplets. Nature is extremely strong and a determining factor, probably stronger than nurture (other than psychological disorders or physical injuries resulting from specific occurrences).
shareDumb logic.
share...care to elaborate on why or were you just looking to make a negative comment in general?
shareYou don't spend years, possibly ruin people's lives with experiments for then to throw up your hands in the air and say "who cares about the results? This 90 minutes documentary about these 3 people solved one of lives biggest questions!"
shareYes, and that was my very point and what I said. We don't need to know anymore because the experiment proved it already. That nature is a HUGE and maybe even more critical influence.
shareSo after being explained how dumb your point is, you still think we all should just move on.
shareUh, probably because your skull is a little thick if by now you haven't figured out how pointless your comment was in the first place when I had already made the point that for some weird reason you felt the need to make again -- and then go into dumb ass troll mode to try to argue the point, LOL.
shareAnd I keep telling you your point is as stupid as you are. I'm not repeating your point, you stupid fuck. I explained how moronic your logic is.
shareNo you explained nothing. You repeated the point we made and then went on to say a bunch of BS that made no sense. You sound like some weird Internet troll so keep talking to yourself. You are now on IGNORE. Get a life, it pays off much more than trolling.
shareIt's not my fault you can't understand what you said contradicts everything science stands for.
Good thing scientists, doctors and experts don't come to conclusions based on documentaries they see once
I thought that everyone in the movie came to the conclusion that nurture is far more important than nature...Eddy's father even admitted he was a very strict father. None of the parents knew about their children's biological family's mental health history. Maybe had Eddy's father known he was adopting a baby from a mother who was mentally ill it would have changed the way he parented Eddy..knowing he was "special needs" and was going to take a lot more Love and Nurture than your average child. Maybe he wouldn't have even adopted Eddy had he known he was coming from a mother with mental illness...
shareShibez, this was my take on the conclusions too. It seems that in the end, while nature exerts an extraordinary force which can be seen even in mannerisms and preferences, the manifestation of certain nature-destined trait can in fact be great modified by how that child is raised.
By the time we come to the end of the movie, it's pretty much pointed out that while all three very likely inherited the same capacity for troubled mental health - indeed, as infants they all displayed distress in their behaviors - the parenting style of Eddy's adoptive parents did make a negative impact on that one boy, driving him toward the detrimental path he took.
Unfortunately, back in those days, there wasn't much sensitivity out there regarding "parenting styles" at all, and even if Eddy's father had known that this boy may need a more careful approach in his upbringing, that was the era when a man like that father would have dismissed that stuff as BS and parented the same anyway. It wasn't an enlightened era.
I also think that the propensity toward mental illness in many of these children may have also been exacerbated by the very act of separating them from not only a birth mother but from each other, too. It's like a chicken and egg dilemma - might not most of these kids already have been set up for disturbance by that early trauma itself? Already all three of them were banging their heads in their cribs, and I have no doubt that being separated from each other was traumatic right from the get-go. There are also studies about the bad effects of a child being separated from its birth mother bond.