Parental Influence/Interference

Opposed to what much of society believes now and believed in the 1990's, parental care does not influence children as much as it is thought to. Assuming that parental influence is affecting behavior in children, then it can also be stated that two children from the same family would be very much alike. Behavior geneticists such as Robert Plomin and Denise Daniels have found this to be untrue, stating that "Two children in the same family [are on average] as different from one another as are pairs of children selected randomly from the population". With this in mind, parental influence seems to be untrue, based on evidence that children in the same family are generally unlike one another.