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According to Lamb & Bornstein (2013), the question “how much is nature and how much
is nurture?” is inappropriate. They state that trying to answer this question would insinuate that
nature and nurture are independent valuables that influence life in different ways. Instead, there
are two assumptions derived from this standoff to explain the roles of nature and nurture in the
human life. First, there is a complete interaction between nature and nurture in any human
behavior (Lamb and Bornstein). Failure to consider this assumption will only lead to conceptual
confusion. Secondly, both nature and nurture dynamically interact to result in the observable
human behavior (Lamb and Bornstein). Based on this argument, the appropriate direction is to
inquire into the manner in which nature and nurture interact. As such, nature affects behavior
indirectly through the internal and external environmental contexts. The environment, in turn,
does not influence human lives directly but acts based on the hereditary characteristics of the
organism on which it acts (Lamb and Bornstein).
The lives of Women in Ethiopia and USA vary in three primary spheres. These are the
levels of education, the age of marriage, and access to quality healthcare. Based on the film “A
Walk to Beautiful”, women in rural Ethiopia have little access to formal education
(CCHealthSciences). On the other hand, access to formal education is a right that is guaranteed
to every person irrespective of their sex. While women are forced into early marriages in
Ethiopia, the USA constitution outlaws both the actions of young girls below the age of majority
getting married and forcing women to marry. In the USA, the government has made significant
strides in enabling access to healthcare facilities by building hospitals and providing medical
insurance cover for the less fortunate (Goldman, Troisi, and Rexrode). There are still hundreds of
thousands of Ethiopian women who do not have access to proper healthcare.
