"if your parents were not good people, you can never be a good person,"
Let's live definition of 'good' to cool down, for I'm not very good at high philosophical definitions. :)
'Never' is a big word. Starbuck is good enough for me, and she had abusive parents. I heard about children of alcoholics saying 'not a drop - never in my life'. (Never heard them succeeding at it - but it's thought that counts).
But generally - children of thieves are thieves, etc. How much of that is genetically predetermined? I'd say a lot, but there're other schools out there, which believe that social component is... stronger than genetic one. And most likely it's combination of both. (and family is BOTH - DNA and grooming).
So it's all probability - the more normal the family is - the more likely it would have a normal offspring. But exclusions are possible in either direction.
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Date: 2006-08-18 09:55 pm (UTC)Let's live definition of 'good' to cool down, for I'm not very good at high philosophical definitions. :)
'Never' is a big word. Starbuck is good enough for me, and she had abusive parents. I heard about children of alcoholics saying 'not a drop - never in my life'. (Never heard them succeeding at it - but it's thought that counts).
But generally - children of thieves are thieves, etc. How much of that is genetically predetermined? I'd say a lot, but there're other schools out there, which believe that social component is... stronger than genetic one. And most likely it's combination of both. (and family is BOTH - DNA and grooming).
So it's all probability - the more normal the family is - the more likely it would have a normal offspring. But exclusions are possible in either direction.