The Origin of You. How Childhood Determines the Rest of Your Life

Is it possible to predict, based on genotype, who will quickly recover from upheavals, and who will be inevitably broken by the hardships they experience in childhood?
Why do some people in adulthood look, think, and act as though they are... much older than their years, whereas others seem younger than they really are?
Why do the upheavals experienced in childhood and adolescence become an integral part of the human organism and develop into illnesses by adulthood?
Four outstanding scientists—Jay Belsky, Avshalom Caspi, Terrie Moffitt, and Richie Poulton—who are researchers of several major longitudinal studies on human health and development, answered these and other questions. «Are we really all products of our childhood?» is the main question that prompted scientists to observe more than 4,000 people from infancy to adulthood.
The result of the study proved: childhood is the most important stage in a person's life path, but each of us has the ability to change the direction of this influence. The best thing we can do in this regard is to scientifically understand how the features of childhood transform into the characteristics of adult life.