Pervasive Dysfunction Summary

“What accounts for their pervasive dysfunction?”
The controversy with nature versus nurture can be difficult to grasp, but after reading the article and examining the Bogle’s family tree it is noticeable that pervasive dysfunction is due to the environment that one is in. From infant to early childhood are the years of learning, it’s where children learn from their parents. As Tracy Bogle states that the children were to be raised as outlaws from the very beginning. In response the children pleased their parents with doing what they were told to do by using violent and illegal behaviors. Despite the environment that they were raised it, the nature outside of that would also play a role in how the children were raised. Besides following such dysfunctional orders, the children soon to be adults seeked for spouses/significant other with the same characteristics and environment raised in. As you can tell from the family tree the only outlier of the entire Bogle Family would be Tammie Bogle because even though she was raised within the same environment she had strayed from the behaviors of her

siblings. However, she does display frequent and consistent cycle of abusive behavior within her marriages. Tammie Bogle’s children were also jailed, but we do not know for sure what environment they were raised in. In conclusion criminal activity within families and the abuse that occurs depends on the environment raised in, but it is not precise if the traits are biologically and genetically passed down.

Family Studies:

The Bogle family tree did provide plenty of information, but there were some unanswered questions that are very specific.

We can point out Mr. Austin who was raised as part of the Bogle family and had only one Bogle Parent. Would that have made a difference? The fact that he only had one Bogle parent we cannot know for sure if his behaviors were biologically passed down. Another example would be the Bogle family and the extended family. There could have been more information on the correlation between the two. It would be more substantially evident if there was more of a descriptive information on how the children were raised in the household. What was the environment exactly like? Those are issues we can’t know for sure. If we knew how long the abuse and violent behaviors were frequent in the environment and family it would allow us to evaluate how they children were

raised.

Twin Studies:

If the Bogle family had twin children it would be possible to see how similar and different the twins can be from one another. This can allow us to evaluate the behaviors of each twin and see how criminal activity may be biologically passed down. We would be able to test how different the twins would be separately, if it were possible to raise one twin in the Bogle family and one in another family.

Adoption Studies:
Adoption studies are used to examine how adaptive children are in new homes which may or may not be different from their biological parents homes. Studying adopted children would allow us to evaluate how it may or may not consist of pervasive dysfunction of the Bogle family is actually through environment and nurture influence or through biological influence.