Nurture Debate Research Paper
Definition of the nurture debate
The Nurture debate cites environmental and social causes of our behaviours. "Nurture refers to all the environmental variables that impact who we are, including our early childhood experiences, how we were raised, our social relationships, and our surrounding culture" . It also includes where we are raised, who we are raised by and who we are raised with, all of which are thought to have an impact on our development. If the conditions mentioned above happen to all be very negative (such as being raised by a drug addict in a slum neighbourhood) then a child can suffer severe issues with their social skills and their moral groundings. Trauma in early life such as watching a loved one suffer or being gravely mistreated …show more content…
His mother pretending to be his sister during the first few years of his life crucial to his development left Bundy disorientated and most likely angry. As put by Professor David Wilson "Everything he'd been previously told to believe was in fact a lie. In those circumstances it would be natural to distrust, it would be natural to find it very difficult to form lasting attachments to those people who had lied to him" . Bundy therefore expressed resentment towards his mother who had left him to discover his parentage (regarding his father) on his own . The evidence seems to suggest that Bundy's disturbing disposition came around through environmental factors however not everyone agrees and some would argue that Bundy was disturbed from a young age "'There seems to be some indication that even when he was a child he had no real close emotional attachment to anyone" . However, given that Bundy suffered such trauma in early life and that the later rejection from Stephanie Brooks altered his perception of women further, it is more probable that Ted Bundy was not born a serial killer but was created by the confusing environment he was raised in. "I have absolutely no doubt that Ted had a certain set of circumstances in his childhood which were very unusual and potentially very damaging. Ted Bundy was not born to be a serial killer; it was a choice that he made as he grew up" . This illustrates that Bundy was in
The Nurture debate cites environmental and social causes of our behaviours. "Nurture refers to all the environmental variables that impact who we are, including our early childhood experiences, how we were raised, our social relationships, and our surrounding culture" . It also includes where we are raised, who we are raised by and who we are raised with, all of which are thought to have an impact on our development. If the conditions mentioned above happen to all be very negative (such as being raised by a drug addict in a slum neighbourhood) then a child can suffer severe issues with their social skills and their moral groundings. Trauma in early life such as watching a loved one suffer or being gravely mistreated …show more content…
His mother pretending to be his sister during the first few years of his life crucial to his development left Bundy disorientated and most likely angry. As put by Professor David Wilson "Everything he'd been previously told to believe was in fact a lie. In those circumstances it would be natural to distrust, it would be natural to find it very difficult to form lasting attachments to those people who had lied to him" . Bundy therefore expressed resentment towards his mother who had left him to discover his parentage (regarding his father) on his own . The evidence seems to suggest that Bundy's disturbing disposition came around through environmental factors however not everyone agrees and some would argue that Bundy was disturbed from a young age "'There seems to be some indication that even when he was a child he had no real close emotional attachment to anyone" . However, given that Bundy suffered such trauma in early life and that the later rejection from Stephanie Brooks altered his perception of women further, it is more probable that Ted Bundy was not born a serial killer but was created by the confusing environment he was raised in. "I have absolutely no doubt that Ted had a certain set of circumstances in his childhood which were very unusual and potentially very damaging. Ted Bundy was not born to be a serial killer; it was a choice that he made as he grew up" . This illustrates that Bundy was in