Melbourne CBD Incident

[kruddler]

If its in their nature, can they be nurtured?

Or are they lost causes from the get go?

Im trying to understand something here, and I cannot figure out for the life of me why some people proceed through life one way yet their siblings go a completely different route and sure there are learning components for parenting in the process as the very few examples I can show you are the eldest children being the ones who stuff up more, yet in one family, 4 kids, we have the eldest and youngest both being terrors and the middle children being "good" kids, which makes me wonder if they are not shaped more by their experiences with their peers than the parenting.

IMHO, parenting is the easy target.  Ive yet to meet too many parents who "don't care" about their kids and as a consequence they turn into bad eggs, but I've met plenty who are molly coddled and turn into terrors.  (Note, the perpetrator of the bourke street incident is very much next level to anything I have witnessed.)

Nurture is not limited to their parents, but it is the obvious factor.

You can argue about this topic for ever and a day and there are plenty of studies on it.

I made a comment previously about limited adults having children as being the best fix (albeit most unlikely) in order to stop this problem. Meaning i believe its more nurture than nature.