User:L;5hi7/sandbox

Nurture impacts an adopted child's physical or mental health, while nature affects an adopted child's human traits as it the biological predisposition. Both nature and nurture affect the development of an adopted child as both behavioral genetics and the environment plays a significant part in the life outcomes of developing adopted children (Santrock, 2018). Nature impacts the child’s cognitive, motor, and linguistic development due to prenatal factors (Santrock, 2018). Nurture stimulates an adopted child's physical and mental growth, such as the characteristics of the family, nutrition, and urbanization (Santrock, 2018). However, both nature and nurture merge to impact a child's development due to biological and environmental factors interacting. If an adopted child is mal-nutrition, the child might fail to grow tall even though he possesses the genes of height inherited from their biological parents. References Santrock, J. (2018). Children. 14th edition. McGraw hill education.