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"This will remain true as long as you and your parents are highly genetically related..."

This genetic reductionism is rubbish. Don't adoptive parents and step-parents act the same way? And aren't siblings, who share MORE genes with each other than they do with their parents, display LESS tolerance for bad behaviour than do parents?

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"But seniors in high school have to ask permission just as much as kindergarteners do."

Not universally, agnostic -- my son is in a (public) middle school and is free to go anywhere within five blocks of the school on his lunch break. When I was in high school several of the public schools near me had "open campuses."

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