Ya know Rach, thats really deep thinkin you got goin on. I think my view of it is pretty simplistic - you can give a person all the tools in life, but they have be the ones to wield them.

In my opinion, people can volunteer to be victims, they can let what happened to them drag them down and not strive to do it differently. Or, they can see what they don't want to become. I don't think it entirely comes down to parenting, because bad kids happen to good parents too - so I think its the soul within the child that determines what they do in life.

I dunno - maybe its too late for me to be pondering these kinds of things!