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Parents may have longer than thought to influence kids' self control

Published in Medicine and Law Weekly, December 22nd, 2006

A Florida State University study offers strong empirical evidence that supports - and challenges - the "stability thesis," an idea that suggests parents have just 10 years or less to affect lasting patterns of self-control (e.g. the ability to delay gratification and thoughtfully consider the consequences of actions) in their child.

Although it's one of the central arguments in a decades-old and widely supported theory linking low self-control to crime, the stability thesis itself had gotten relatively little scrutiny from criminologists until FSU researchers took a long look. Longstanding theory contends that low self-control is more strongly correlated with crime...

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