This is a complex question without a simple answer. First of all, it is possible to be born into a family with psychiatric illness and still come out all right. Some children actually grow up caring for their parents and become caring adults. Some copy the maladaptive behavior they see. Some parents with psychiatric illness hide their problems from their children and some do not. Some psychiatric illnesses have genetic components of varying strengths and others do not. Some children have predispositions toward mental illness because of perinatal environment which has nothing to do with genetics. Overall, life is a crap shoot. Psychologists have basically ascribed about 25% of the determination of someone’s life to genetics, 25% to environmental influences, including the environment parents afford their children, which leaves 50% to other random factors. As Dumbledore (from Harry Potter) says, however, what becomes of your life depends upon the choices you make.

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