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> I openly don't (and I can't stand the narcissism that is involved in the reason). If you look at the parenting most parents do, they do it as if the child should be like them, just smarter or achieve more - but otherwise similar (as I said: narcissism).

Evolution at work. Parents who tried to make their kids different than themselves did not raise parents.



Not quite, there are two forces at work. Competitive reproductive advantage and levelling drift. First requires experiment, the other counters it.




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