Forums
New posts
Search forums
What's new
New posts
New profile posts
Latest activity
Internet Search
Members
Current visitors
New profile posts
Search profile posts
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Search forums
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Forums
Parent Support Forums
General Parenting
Just got back from visiting my son at his Residential Treatment Center (RTC)
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="Copabanana" data-source="post: 686486" data-attributes="member: 18958"><p>This is true but genetics acts in combination with environment. And more than this, there is freedom of choice. Our children do not have the same environment as did their parents.</p><p></p><p>In my own life, I had one parent that died a drug addict and alcoholic. I have neither problem. I could have had but I did not. I chose differently. I became a highly accomplished professional, who is esteemed by some. I have self-esteem and self-respect. I could have followed my genetics. I chose not too.</p><p></p><p>My son is choosing differently than did his birth parents. I am not saying that addiction and mental illness are trivial. But I am saying that in many cases genetic influences are not determinative, just as psychiatric diagnoses need not be. They can be one factor in a life.</p><p></p><p>Our kids can seem to be walking that path, only to experience it, understand it and reject it.</p><p></p><p>Each of us has different viewpoints on this site. In many cases these differing viewpoints come from the choices we have made in our own lives, not necessarily on "truths."</p><p></p><p>This is one of the things that makes this site so worthwhile. You will find many parents dealing with similar things, who may choose to see their situations and that of their children, in differing ways. You too can choose.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Copabanana, post: 686486, member: 18958"] This is true but genetics acts in combination with environment. And more than this, there is freedom of choice. Our children do not have the same environment as did their parents. In my own life, I had one parent that died a drug addict and alcoholic. I have neither problem. I could have had but I did not. I chose differently. I became a highly accomplished professional, who is esteemed by some. I have self-esteem and self-respect. I could have followed my genetics. I chose not too. My son is choosing differently than did his birth parents. I am not saying that addiction and mental illness are trivial. But I am saying that in many cases genetic influences are not determinative, just as psychiatric diagnoses need not be. They can be one factor in a life. Our kids can seem to be walking that path, only to experience it, understand it and reject it. Each of us has different viewpoints on this site. In many cases these differing viewpoints come from the choices we have made in our own lives, not necessarily on "truths." This is one of the things that makes this site so worthwhile. You will find many parents dealing with similar things, who may choose to see their situations and that of their children, in differing ways. You too can choose. [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Forums
Parent Support Forums
General Parenting
Just got back from visiting my son at his Residential Treatment Center (RTC)
Top