Don t worry about it. There is nothing you can do. Judith Rich Harris proposes ideas like these in her book, The Nurture Assumption .
Psychologists generally agree that personality is formed half by genes and half by environment.
That environment primarily involves the parents. Harris argues the environment that matters is not the home, but instead the day-care, the playground, the neighbor s yard, the school hall. Many disagree with her assumption. Another study submitted recently to the American Sociological Association and conducted by Cynthia Harper of the University of Pennsylvania and Sara McLanahan of Princeton University revealed an opposite conclusion about fathers specifically. They discovered that boys with absent fathers were twice as likely to go to jail as boys with both natural parents.