If it's not caused by bad parenting, but genetics, then can we say it's just bad parents?Antisocial behaviour is inherited in some children and not caused by bad parenting, psychiatrists claimed today.
They argued that children with psychopathic tendencies owed their antisocial behaviour to their genetic make-up.
But children without psychopathic tendencies who were also antisocial were more likely to be behaving badly because of their environment rather than their genes, they concluded.
Dr Essi Viding, from the Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, at King's College, London, said his study had important implications for social policy.
And another question: why is non-psychopathic antisocial behavior labeled bad?
Maybe those kids just don't see much of anything appealing about the society they're in.
Oh, and one more: What's the implication for social policy in this? Euthenasia to cull those kids with "bad" genes? Sterilize possible parents? Eugenics?
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