User blog comment:Yatanogarasu/Children Inherit Parents' Legacy/@comment-1949364-20110301045142

It's a common issue in human society. Of course a child shouldn't be blamed for their parents' sins. But these type of things happen all the time. And, psychologically speaking, they aren't too far off. People's personalities and attitudes are mix of nature and nurture. And we sometimes inherit our parents traits from birth. At the same time many people will grow up vastly different from them.

There's also expectation: Usually if a child is expected to be rotton because they're from the ghetto, or have a bad homelife, or what have you, they're expected to be delinquents. And statistically speaking, they'd be right. But if they'd been given better chances they may not have grown up to be thieves/killers/drug dealers/etc.

Anyway this reminded me of how Australia was originally an island of criminals. And all the kids that were born there were kept there, even though they themselves had done nothing wrong yet. *shrug*