Our Nature is Nurture: Are shifts in child-rearing making modern kids mean?

This is a very thought provoking article that has shaken me out of my comfort zones. How children are being raised today may have far-reaching consequences. Read the excerpts: “…many modern children—far from growing up surrounded by doting kin—don’t even see much of their busy, working parents. Kids receive much of their care from non-kin, whether babysitters or preschool teachers. Then there are all the children who grow up with only one or no parent or abusive parents. As a result, many kids suffer from "disorganized attachment,” which means they have a hard time understanding and trusting others.

If children receive poor care, their innate capacity for caring may not be fully expressed; they may become uncaring parents, colleagues, citizens. Even more alarmingly, the genes underpinning our prosocial impulses may dwindle because they are no longer favored by natural selection".

Click to Read the full article at SCIAM.