If you look around, you see it. Parents that are classic good and stable parents have kids that become addicts, strippers, criminals, murderers, drunks, perverts democrats, you name it.
The best parent in the world can get a Hunter Biden.
Conversely, the meanest foul mouthed violent drunk dad or slutty mom who lives in squalor sometimes has a kid that looks at them and decides they don’t want THAT, and they go to college or find a job, they work hard and own half the town and the respect of the community.
It’s often dramatic and amazing.
So true.
My dad knew, from childhood, a true “bad seed.” Total psychopath, bordering on demonic. Dad and everyone else was warned in the second grade, to watch out for this character. The guy was smart enough to stay out of prison but his crimes were legion. He married one time, raised one kid.
That kid, now in his 50’s, has never been in trouble, has a happy, satisfying marriage, family and social life; everyone who ever knew his dad thinks this outcome is a miracle.
And the bad seed’s parents — you guessed it, great people. There are no guarantees.
That is an unpopular idea because it puts the responsibility back on the person but it is true.
Now having good parents makes it easier for you to be a good person and having bad parents makes it more difficult but at some point it is just you and what you have chosen to become.