Good parenting improves the odds, of that there is no doubt.Beiruty wrote:If said son was on drugs and burglarizing his Aunt's house, that is not lapse of judgment. That is evilness and/or de-atachment from reality.
However, as jmra mentions, there are kids raised in good homes that do either stupid things, or even evil things. There are kids also that are raised in horrific circumstances that become good people.
There are people imprisoned for murder who had horribly abusive parents, but there are also people who had horribly abusive parents and never committed a crime. There are people who had fabulous parents who never committed a crime, but there are also people who had fabulous parents who are on death row for murder.
Parenting is but one factor --ultimately the individual is accountable for their own actions.