[ColdNoMore]

Originally Posted by Grill Meister

May I suggest.....rather than "improving education systems, social health and welfare, you increase the odds that kids will grow up to become productive members of society, and decrease the odds that they'll end up violent criminals", you start in the home. Teach your children respect, teach them to respect their elders, teach them to respect the law, teach them to respect themselves and life, and teach them to respect authority. So often the teaching in the home is sadly missing and is reflected in the attitude of the child, in their youth and in their adult life. They are being taught to defy authority, defy responsibility and defy taking control of their own actions. The education system and certainly social health and welfare are not going to have any positive effect if the parents don't provide the discipline in the home.

So, what explains the fact that multiple children can be raised in the same household, under the exact same "respect/morals/attitudes/Etc."...yet turn out completely different?

The effects of 'nature versus nurture'...is a very old subject.

I've always said that we parents usually get too much credit, and too much blame...on how our children turn out.

Of course, there will be some with great and successful kids (which I fortunately have)...that will totally disagree.