Family of Origin and Career Choice
Do childhood experiences - "what it was like growing up" - influence professional interests as adults?

This questionnaire aims to identify patterns and relationships between childhood / family of origin experiences and career choices people make as adults.

The data collected in this project is completely anonymous. No part of the information gathered can be used to identify respondents. 

Some of the questions may be difficult to encounter. They could trigger unwanted memories. You can stop at any time, there is no pressure to finish. There are no wrong answers! The questions are in no particular in order, they are presented randomly, according to an algorithm. We ask 25 to 30 questions, all multiple choice.

We haven't sought to prevent multiple responses. But we hope that if you choose to respond, you'll only do so once.

At the end you will find a link to a blog where you can subscribe to updates. If you want to see results, we'll post them there first. There will also be a form for questions and suggestions if you wish to have direct interactions with the team.
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Do Childhood Experiences influence Adult Career Choices?
As a child do you remember Holidays being happy?
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Were holidays relaxing and fun in your home?
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Growing up, did you have police officer friends?
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Did the adults in your home appreciate law enforcement officers?
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Before you were 18 years old, did an adult or person at least 5 years older than you ever: Touch or fondle you or have you touch their body in a sexual way?
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Attempt or actually have oral, anal, or vaginal intercourse with you?
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Growing up did you have house plants to water?
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Did your family grow vegetables sometimes?
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Were your parents ever separated or divorced?
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Growing up, did you like reading?
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Was reading something the adults in your house encouraged?
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Growing up, was neighborhood crime a worry for the adults in your home?
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Were you or your family victims of crime more than once?
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Did a parent or other adult in the household often:
Push, grab, slap, or throw something at you?
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Ever hit you so hard that you had marks or were injured?
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Were any of your parents or other adult caregivers: Often pushed, grabbed, slapped, or had something thrown at them?
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Sometimes or often kicked, bitten, hit with a fist, or hit with something hard?
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Ever repeatedly hit over at least a few minutes or threatened with weapons of any kind?
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Which category best describes your professional area of interest?
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Growing up, were the adults in your home monogamous?
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Did you sense that the adults in your home were committed to each other?
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Growing up, what was the most influential ancestry heritage in your family?
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How would you say you were identified as a child?
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How would you categorize your sexual orientation today?
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Growing up, did you have favorite pet?
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Were the members of your house kind toward animals?
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Did the adults you lived with help with your education?
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Was school homework something important in your home?
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Did a parent or other adult in the household often:
Swear at you, insult you, put you down, or humiliate you?
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Act in a way that made you afraid that you might be physically hurt?
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Growing up, did you enjoy learning to play an instrument?
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Was music an important ingredient in your everyday schedule as a listener?
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Growing up, when you brought home a school report card were you scared?
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If academics were hard for you, did adults in your house criticize you?
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Growing up did you enjoy making art?
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Were crafts or something fun in your family?
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Growing up, when you went to the doctor or dentist was it fun?
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Did the adults in your house help you feel comfortable when you saw the doctor?
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Growing up, did you move to live with others more than once?
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Did you attend schools in more than one town?
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Did you live with anyone who was a problem drinker or alcoholic, or who used street drugs?
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Growing up, if your family experienced the loss of a member, was this frightening?
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Upon the death of someone in your family, did you feel ignored?
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Are you monogamous?
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Is your preference to live in a committed relationship?
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Growing up, did you have fun in Theater and/or dance?
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Were the adults supportive of Thespian pursuits?
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Did you often feel that: You didn’t have enough to eat, had to wear dirty clothes, and had no one to protect you?
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Your parents were too drunk or high to take care of you or take you to the doctor if you needed it?
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Did a household member go to prison?

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Was a household member depressed or mentally ill, or did a household member attempt suicide?
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Were birthdays celebrated when you were a child?
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Do you have pleasant memories of some of your birthdays before you were 10?
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Growing up were you involved with sports?
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Were adults happy about and present for your athletic development?
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Growing up, were you on your own if the adults in your home were absent?
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Did you care for yourself before the adults got home from work?
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Were the adults in your home religious?
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If you attended services with adults, was it something you looked forward to?
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Growing up, would you say finances were difficult for the adults in your home?
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Did the adults in your home argue over money?
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Do you remember if politics was a subject that your adult family members argued over?
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Did you disagree with adults in your house about politics?
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When you were younger, did you often feel that: No one in your family loved you or thought you were important or special?
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Your family didn’t look out for each other, feel close to each other, or support each other?
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