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On Mon, 21 Aug 2017 19:54:14 +0000 (UTC), "Leroy N. Soetoro" <[email protected]> wrote:

http://nypost.com/2017/06/01/how-a-psychopath-is-made/

Two �extreme� parenting styles have been linked to children becoming
criminal psychopaths in later life, a study has revealed.

The Norwegian University of Science and Technology interviewed high-
security prisoners and found many have a history of either total parental >neglect, or rigidly controlling, authoritarian parents.

A psychopath is a person who suffers from a chronic mental disorder with >abnormal or violent social behavior.

They are defined by their lack of empathy and have a tendency to
manipulate people without any guilt.

The startling research found that all criminal psychopaths studied also
had a history of grotesque physical and/or psychological abuse during >childhood.

Study author Dr. Aina Gullhaugen commented: �Without exception, these
people have been injured in the company of their caregivers.

�And many of the descriptions made it clear that their later ruthlessness
was an attempt to address this damage, but in an inappropriate or bad
way.�

Explaining the types of parents criminal psychopaths typically had, she >added: �If you think of a scale of parental care that goes from nothing,
the absence of care, all the way to the totally obsessive parent, most >parents are in the middle.

�The same applies to how we feel about parental control.

�On a scale from �not caring� all the way to �totally controlling,� most
have parents who end up in the middle.

�But it is different for psychopaths.

�More than half of the psychopaths I have studied reported that they had
been exposed to a parenting style that could be placed on either extreme
of these scales.

�Either they lived in a situation where no one cared, where the child is >subjected to total control and must be submissive, or the child has been >subjected to a neglectful parenting style.�

Parents cannot be blamed for everything, and there are many children who
have awful upbringings and don�t go on to become criminal psychopaths.

Gullhaugen said: �Of course, not all reckless behavior is explained by a
bad upbringing, but we do not inherit everything either. That is my main >point.�

Experts have previously revealed what personality traits to look out for
in order to spot a psychopath.

And here I thought the road to psychopathy was
called "K-12" :-)

But it does make sense that both zero ethical feedback
and 100% micro-managing zeal would do bad things to
the kiddies. First case you never *know* what's right and
the second case you're so frustrated and dependent on
continual guidance that you neither *know* OR *care*
what is right since YOUR feelings on anything are always
irrelevant.

A good case for applying the Buddhas "middle way" concept.

Now I *do* remember that the lads who's fathers were
ex-military (WW2/Korea) who mentally never really LEFT
the military .... those lads were usually the biggest assholes
and most likely to do you harm. Five-year-olds shouldn't
be treated like Marine recuits.

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