growing up my friends and I were a mischievous bunch of raskals. Not bad, just general mischief. Late Jr.High toward highschool they began smoking, drinking, and then drugs. When I saw what path they were going down I began to distance myself from them.

I can say these lads had good parents but their offspring caused the parents misery and grief. Some had STRONG fathers too.

Do you know any such examples like that? People always blame parents for the offspring, but I don't believe it. Looking back I can see how those parents try to manipulate/control those out-of-control CURS but nothing they could do worked. They tried grounding, getting physical(it was deserved), everything. Those kids just stopped going to school, running the STREETS, and that kind of thing, nothing the parents tried worked.

I seem to remember watching a Teddy Atlas talk on YouTube and it was quite similar to what I just shared

I have also noticed that parents always blame the "friends" but never consider their child may share the same qualities as those "friends" the parent doesn't want their kid hanging around

I can't blame parents 100% if the kids start acting up when they are teenagers. Most teens are *******s and are looking for ways to rebel. That being said, they should have serious consequences if they are acting like that. If the kids have horrible behavior when they are young (2-13) then it's totally on the parents.

what if the CURS had some ancestor who was a notorious OUTLAW or SLOOT and that genetic eventually manifested itself in the offspring of two good samaritans