[Ads-l] Quote: All parents are environmentalists until they have their second child (Request help to access Behavioral and Brain Sciences)

[Chris Waigl]

[Sent privately.]

>From the title, I initially thought this was about parents being so busy
with two or more children that they can't manage any more to
bring/wash/manage reusable eating and drinking implements, diapers etc. The
meaning of environmentalist has morphed a little since 1987.

On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 11:46 AM ADSGarson O'Toole <
adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com> wrote:

> An inquiry about a "nature versus nurture" quotation was sent to me
> via twitter. I traced a version of the saying to an article in the
> journal "Behavioral and Brain Sciences", but I can only read the title
> of the article which is given in the subject line. Would someone be
> willing to send me the PDF of the article from "Behavioral and Brain
> Sciences"? (There is a link to the article below).
>
> The target article is a response to the following primary article: Why
> are children in the same family so different from one another? by
> Robert Plomin and Denise Daniels. A PDF of the full article would be
> helpful.
>
> [Begin tweet inquiry]
> Kevin Mitchell @WiringTheBrain
> There's a famous quote with the idea that a person can remain a
> empiricist (believer in nurture) if they have only one child, but once
> they have a second they become a nativist (believer in nature). Anyone
> know source?
> [End tweet]
>
> [Begin tweet inquiry]
> Richard Harper @harpersnotes
> cc Quote Investigator. @QuoteResearch .. After the first child a
> parent believes in nurture. After the second- nature.
> [End tweet]
>
> Behavioral and Brain Sciences
> Vol 10, Num 1 Mar 1987, p42-44
> All parents are environmentalists until they have their second child
> Marvin Zuckerman
> https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X00056259
>
> Garson
>
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