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Subject: Adoptive Study

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Tammy D. Ali-Carr

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Date Posted: 17:35:09 01/27/08 Sun

Reading about Heredity-Environment made me remember that my brother was adopted. He came to our family when he was three months old. I am ten years older than he is.

I remember when he was around six years old I told him that he acted the way he did because he was adopted. This broke his heart because he did not know until then that he was adopted.

As years have gone by I see a lot of my dad in my brother. They way my brother walks, talks and some facial expressions and mannerism are a lot like my dad's. I am not sure if my brother's disdain for household chores is environmental or heredity (my dad always had us doing something around the house, garage or yard). So it could be that my brother decided he would never do house work when he got older.

We never knew who his biological parents were so it is impossible to tell how much my brother got from heredity or environment but I would say environment appears to have played a large role.

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Re: Adoptive Study	Kendall Nash	19:29:25 01/27/08 Sun