If both parents have the gene then there is a one in four chance that the child will be born with it. People that have cystic fibrosis could have many factors that affect them physically, intellectual, emotionally and socially. People with this condition could have problems absorbing nourishment from foods and may also have respiratory and chest infections. This could affect their every day life and could prevent them from joining in sports at school for example. Cystic fibrosis can have many effects of an individual’s life as they are expected to have a shorter life expectancy compared to people without the condition.
The arguments of an individual’s physical features are due to nature; e.g. eye and hair color can be inherited from their parents along with other physical features like head and nose shape, curly or straight hair and a range of diseases affecting the health of an individual. However, an individual’s appearance can change by having surgery or using various cosmetic products altering physical appearance, this would then be known as nurture as the individual grows older they are learning different ways in which could help them change how they look. Several modern psychologists consider the question naïve and representing an outdated state of knowledge. The famous philosopher John Locke states that the mind starts on a blank slate, he believes nurture is everything and nature is nothing.
Karanja, her son, was often blamed on her ‘negligence’ by relatives and friends who openly thought she must have done something for her son to turn out this way. Current research suggests the majority of cerebral palsy cases result from abnormal brain development or brain injury prior to birth or during labor and delivery. Accidents, abuse, medical malpractice, negligence, infections, and injury are some known risk factors that may lead to cerebral palsy. An individual with cerebral palsy will likely show signs of physical impairment. However, the type of movement dysfunction, the location and number of limbs involved, as well as the extent of impairment, will vary from one individual to another.
This stresses the importance of attachment, and therefore the negative impact long term deprivation has on children. Richards (1987) theorised that the experience of divorce seems to affect children more than a parent’s death. This may be due to several factors such as little or no contact if one parent leaves the home; stress of family reordering; or the child may blame themselves for the divorce. However, this was a case study which cannot be generalised as the children’s situations are unique, and therefore different to others. Moreover, death could seem to have a less affect on children depending on their upbringing and nature of the situation.
This can include being denied opportunities such as employment or accommodation because of their illness. Stigma in the form of social distancing has been observed when people are unwilling to associate with a person with mental illness. This might include not allowing the person to provide childcare, or declining the offer of a date (Corrigan et al, 2001). Self-discrimination or internalised discrimination is the process in which people with mental health problems turn the stereotypes about mental illness adopted by the public, towards themselves. They assume they will be rejected socially and so believe they are not valued (Livingston and Boyd,
There are many reasons why someone would argue these reasons for instance mental health could be argued by someone who supports the nature debate that someone can be born with genes that can make them more susceptible to problems in this area. From another angle though, someone arguing for the sake of the nurture debate could say that this was false and that someone has to have had the influence of bad things happening to them during their life to be this way and cannot be born that way. Mental disorders account for a large proportion of the diseases in young people from all societies (s1). Most start at an early age but are not picked up until later in life, and it is of great concern as it notably results in lower educational achievements, substance abuse, violence and poor reproductive and sexual health (s3). This issue with mental health is a huge problem to our society.
In incisive cases the child may develop missing limbs, extra limbs as a result of having identical DNA. A mother may choose to abort early on when a problem is detected because it is not fair for that child to live a life “mutated” or like a vegetable for their entire life. Incest may pose some issues such as rape does STD’s that can be passed to the child & become life threatening. Also incest is just as traumatic as rape and can cause long term and short term
* People who are experiencing cognitive dissonance may adopt a pattern of denial, diversion and defensiveness to control their discomfort. They may also alternate between periods of denial and periods of self shame when they try to compensate or make amends. (Out of the Fog, 2007-2011) * Non personality-disordered (non-PD) individuals often experience cognitive dissonance when they are confronted with evidence that their partner, spouse, parent, sibling or child is not behaving in a loving way toward them. This may contradict their belief or desire that their family is healthy or normal. (Out of the Fog, 2007-2011) * Non-PD’s may also experience cognitive dissonance when they discover that their own reactions or responses to challenging behavior on the part of a family member do not reveal their best side.
Someone could be born with genes to give them a normal height, but be malnourished in childhood, resulting in stunted growth and a failure to develop can occur. Nurture factors that trigger an individual to commit crime or simply decide their attitude and way of dealing with situations are influences by social and environmental factors. Children learn off discipline. If they do something morally wrong or something in general that their parents don’t find acceptable in their eyes they scold them and/ or punish them so they don’t make the same mistake again. This can range from eating habit to how to behave in front of new guests.
Genes can determine an infant’s eye color, skin tone, body size and health condition, such as, heart disease passed on from a parent. These traits, though, can be altered by environmental factors. An infant, who is malnourished, like many are from underdeveloped countries, will have changes in their physical and even mental development. A child destined to be tall may now have a stunt in growth and mental retardation from the lack and nutrients needed for the growing body and mind. According to Papalia, et al.