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It is hard to escape the truth that much of your personal development is either helped or hampered by those crucial early years spend with your parents. It is

It is hard to escape the truth that much of your personal development is either helped or hampered by those crucial early years spend with your parents. It is obvious from probing family histories of self, family and friends - seeing how the dots join between certain experiences then and certain traits now. The same patterns emerge, and you do wonder how many fewer broken people we would have if parents held themselves to a higher standard.

simmerup 3y ago
Then you have to keep going back, as poor parents were likely neglected as children also and so on
- HeckFeck 3y ago
  Responsibility has to begin somewhere. We cannot give in to passive determinism.
  - sideshowb 3y ago
    Or you could stop thinking in terms of blame and start thinning in terms of where is best to fix the problem.
    - HeckFeck 3y ago
      You are saying the same thing in two different ways, while doing the same as what you're accusing me :)
ffsm8 3y ago
Maybe, but this study doesn't seem to establish that. They've at best established a correlation, but it could also be explained the other way around: people that struggle making human connections have a tendency to develop mental illnesses. Which should be pretty unsurprising to anyone...