Our children are not us: they carry throwback genes and rec… - Andrew Solomon

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Our children are not us: they carry throwback genes and recessive traits and are subject right from the start to environmental stimuli beyond our control. And yet we are our children; the reality of being a parent never leaves those who have braved the metamorphosis.

Andrew Solomon

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Andrew Solomon (born 30 October 1963) is an American author. He wrote The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression (2001) and Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity (2012).

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