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Family & Environment

PROLOGUE

Family And Environment

PROLOGUE: Francis Galton, the controversial nineteenth-century British scientist (and cousin of Charles Darwin), is credited with coining the phrase "nature versus nurture" to distinguish among characteristics one is born with and those acquired as a result of one’s surroundings. Although there is far from universal agreement about the relative effects of heredity versus environment, the question has sparked a fertile field of study and active debate that continues to this day.

Two distinct but related papers in this volume address important external contributors to health and well-being: family influences and the broader environment. In the first, Anne Case and Christina . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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