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I would go so far, and quite unjestingly, as to maintain that the least some parents can do for their children is through environmental influence to neutralize the heredity which they have inflicted upon them.

From Child Versus Parent Some Chapters on the Irrepressible Conflict in the Home by Wise, Stephen