#5 Nurture is much more important.

After many hours of reading and researching to find out if psychopaths are born that way or made, I am definitely closer to fully answering my own questions. However, it will be exciting to explore this subject more in depth.  I find it very interesting that both nature and nurture play such important and extremely unique roles in the development of a psychopath.  Learning that psychopath’s exhibit very distinct personality traits was intriguing as well.  It was shocking to find that the actual brain matter is different from a normal individual to someone classified as a psychopath.  

Functioning psychopaths is something I would like to dive into. When it comes to nurture, what specific environments affect whether a psychopath functions through life normally or drives them to criminal behavior? Are there ways to accurately label a seemingly normal person a psychopath?  What concrete diagnostic tools are out there to fairly diagnosis someone with such a critical and lastly diagnosis? 

I would also like to examine how psychopaths relate to their family.  How does their psychopathic behavior affect their children and spouse whether it becomes criminal or not?  Are defined psychopaths safe to have relationships with and have children? Included in my blog were some staggering statistics of psychopaths and men.  The last piece of this puzzle I am interested in has to do with women.  What are the statistics for women and why such a huge difference?  My first thought is it has to be genetic. Men and women are wired so genetically different. 

Having discovered that nature and nurture both play a role in the development of a psychopath, my argument is that nurture plays a more critical, longer lasting role on whether a person turns into a cold-blooded criminal psychopath. I plan to argue that the social and family environments that a clinically born psychopath develops in are the most influencing.