In most of these studies the amount of correlation, or in some studies variation, that is claimed to be statistically significant, is of little or no significance in the traditional usage of the word significance. Academicians, she admits, are between a rock and a hard place until they get tenure. After that they can be honest, but then most stop doing research. In the main, says Harris, children do not copy their parents. If they copy anybody it is their peers so that they can fit in with their group.
Children are just as good as adults in separating social contexts.
They know that what works with their parents, will rarely work with their peers, and that what works with their peers, only rarely will work with their parents. By separating social contexts they can adjust what they say and do accordingly. What children learn from their parents, may or may not be useful with their peers, usually not. And what they learn from their peers, may or may not be useful with their parents, again usually not. Harris is careful to define the form and function of social groups, realizing, as she clearly does, the enormous complexity of group interactions.