[Mrs. Don-o]

Or, on the other hand, it could be too much "apply the rod" as well.

There are exceptions, of course, but as far as I can tell, very compassionate people had very compassionate parents.

And --- not always perhaps, but usually --- cold-as-ice people had parents who left them frozen to the bone.

[Vaduz]

compassionate people had very compassionate parents.
Very rare,when a child knows it can do what ever it wants to it will.
Liberal are a case in point when hippies have hippies it’s never a good thing gene pools need cleaning too.