With due apology, the most
disturbing question for me asked by doctors during check-up is “Did your
ancestors ever suffer from any disease?” and I am always unable to control the
cross-question or a stupid reply, I have to, since the next few minutes would be
crucial for me being in the hands of doctor. No one has ever answered my
question “Which disease was transferred from Adam and Eve to their generation
who suffered millions of diseases till today and impossible to speculate how
many are in line?”
I am a true believer of Scientific and Technological Research & Development to
the extent of my verdict “Scientists are Messengers of God” because the whole
Universal System is based on Science. Medicine or Genetics Engineering are
branches of Science as I consider that Science is the mother of all subjects and
The Creator is a teacher who himself strictly follow the basic principles of
Science. For example; if I burry a seed of apple in the soil, I will never get
an orange from the grown up plant out of that seed. This is a universally
established fact but the statement “Children usually look like their parents
because they have inherited their parents' genes, Genetics tries to identify
which features are inherited, and explain how these features pass from
generation to generation” is not yet an established fact as it is still under
process of Research & Development, hence both Medicine and Genetics Engineering
are in evolutionary stage.
Both the above two paragraphs are the basis of my argument that the personality
of a child is neither totally dependent on genes nor on the institution he
studied, rather the impact of these two factors is mostly diluted by the
amalgamation of following factors:
a) Existence / non-existence of parents in childhood.
b) Financial status of parents / guardians.
c) Environments.
d) Child’s personal society.
e) Social and extracurricular activities.
Above stated factors are listed according to Meritocracy of impact on the
Upbringing of a child, which finally results in his / her personality. Following
is the scientific explanation of each factor:
a) Existence / non-existence of parents in childhood: Existence of both, father
and mother is a feeling of any child like an Identity card to live in this world
under an umbrella of a Comprehensive Third Party Insurance Policy. Missing of
any one reduces the risk coverage of policy to 50% for that very child, which is
reflected in his / her performance throughout whole life span. Exceptions are
always there.
b) Financial status of parents / guardians: Since pre-historic era of human till
this moment, the strength of an individual is displayed by:
i. Physical strength i.e. overall health,
ii. Mental strength i.e. IQ,
iii. Financial strength i.e. tool to fulfill wishes.
A child knows how to get fulfilled all his wishes but parents / guardian must
possess a very strong tool i.e. Financial Strength to comply with during nurture
period, otherwise a sense of inferiority prevails throughout life span of any
child.
c) Environments: This factor starts its impact right from his / her parents’ /
guardians’ way of life and expands to the limits of last circle of society being
interacted. The impact of environments is too effective in childhood due to
intensive receptive mind which is just like a fertile soil for a plant.
d) Child’s personal society: Environment is very vast field for a grown up
person and can be defined by his interactive experience whereas a child’s
interactive area is too limited but has more severe impact comparatively due to
in-experience personality in transition.
e) Social and extracurricular activities: Individual child's activity is
preferably dependent on his / her own choice mostly cannot be inculcated by
parents / guardian or any teacher and normally he / she follows self made
ideals.
Genetics is the study of genes — what they are and how they work. Genes are
units inside a cell that control how living organisms inherit features from
their ancestors; for example, children usually look like their parents because
they have inherited their parents' genes. Genetics tries to identify which
features are inherited, and explain how these features pass from generation to
generation. But as I stated earlier, this whole phenomenon is under study and
will conclude some good results in future definitely, while Upbringing -
properties acquired during a person's formative years plays a vital role in
personality building of a child. The rearing and training received during
childhood is an effort to fulfill the parents’ wishes but the results are not
hundred percent according to expectations due to the fact that above stated
factors are much more influential during a person’s formative years, the
education of a person during his formative years is also meant for bringing-up
of that person or helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the
community actually means “Upbringing”.
Genetics is nature and Upbringing is nurture, hence there is always a debate
going on “whether nature or nurture was more important". My viewpoint is that
the deciding factor is:
“Children’s personal choice and Individual’s will Power utilization”
All the above stated five factors (a - e) can be materialized only in case of
utilization of will power to act in a manner as to achieve something positive or
negative out of it, otherwise every factor results in a dream and consequently a
distorted incomplete personality. It doesn’t mean that parents are free to let
the children float at their own, rather they must feel more responsibility at
their shoulders to nurture their kids and be less dependent on nature or genes
and should make all the investments in cultivation of every child like a plant
i.e. the preparation of ground to promote their growth, tending, improving, or
harvesting, development especially through education, training, etc. and culture
or sophistication, especially social refinement due to the reality that they
cannot refine a child through genetic engineering.