How much can nurture effect our lives? If a person comes from a broken family and learns how to act within a broken family will their personality show it? Most people say a broken, dysfunctional family
will promote broken dysfunctional people. If someone grows up in a hostile environment they will think that that is how everyone acts. When they are beaten or see their mother or sibling beaten they think all fathers beat their families and either allow their future spouse batter them or batter their spouse. Statistics say that you are so much more likely to become an abuser of people and substances if you grow up around that kind of abuse. Therefore statistics say that you are almost doomed from the moment you are brought into this world.
This idea of society and the people in it is not a hard and fast rule. There is no way to tell who is going to grow up to be successful and who will not be. Simply growing up with hardships and in the face of difficulty does not guarantee that you will be a failure at life. When people say that broken families make for broken people, broken government and broken politics, they are exaggerating. They are using stereotypes to judge the population on a smaller percent of people.
I'd agree with this post one hundred percent. While it is true that statistically speaking, children who grow up in dysfunctional families are more likely (not guaranteed) to become dysfuctional adults themselves, it's far from the certainty that some people make it out to be.
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