Yes generational sins and patterns are sadly a thing, not just in cultures, but in families.
A child is more likely to grow up alcoholic if their parent was, and their parent’s parent was etc…But the power of Jesus can break the cycle!
That is exactly what makes the Founding Fathers so defensible.
Many of them broke the cycle in their own lifetimes. This is what makes blaming America for slavery so indefensible. It was an inherited evil.