The Family Dynamic: A Journey into the Mystery of Sibling Success
by Susan Dominus
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"Is there a secret sauce behind those rare families that boast multiple highly successful children? Award-winning New York Times journalist weaves story with science in pursuit of answers. Acclaimed New York Times investigative journalist Susan Dominus profiles six families with several exceptionally accomplished children in order to tease apart the various factors that might have led to their success, including inherited tendencies. She starts with the iconic Bronte? sisters, whose show more remarkable literary success inspired endless speculation about the reason for so much talent under one roof. Dominus, herself the mother of twin teenagers, then moves to the present moment, relating the fascinating trajectories of families from diverse cultural, racial and socio-economic backgrounds, including young parents from China who fled the one-child policy to open a Chinese restaurant in Appalachia and sent four children to elite colleges and careers that give back in technology and medicine; the Groff family, whose claim to fame is not just an award-winning novelist but an Olympic athlete and a notable entrepreneur; and the Holifields, raised in the Jim Crow South and boasting two powerful attorneys, both Harvard law school graduates, and a cardiologist, all three influential, in their own ways, in civil rights. Woven into these and other inspiring stories is an account of centuries of scientific research into the question of nature vs. nurture in predicting outcomes"-- show lessTags
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- Sociology, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
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- 306.85 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social Behavior - Dating, Marriage, Divorce Marriage, partnerships, unions; family Family
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- HQ755.8 .D653 — Social sciences The family. Marriage, Women and Sexuality The Family. Marriage. Women The family. Marriage. Home Parents. Parenthood
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