I have to agree, and also would like to add that you can stop the chain...my mother & father were both raised in very strict traditional homes where alcohol abuse was seen in both homes. My father(more verbally abuses & mother more physically abuses as well as verbally abuses & have been for years...but after getting all that abuse I made sure it would stop as best as I could when it came to laying a hand on my little brother) I would have to say that it all depends on the person & how they think. If one wants to break the chain they have to make the ultimate decision to just say no more abuse..no more violence.
I know for a fact that if I was ever blessed with kids... I would never lay a hand on them...accept for kissing hugging & showering them with a sense of security...something I lacked growing up.
only that person can decide to stop the abuse/violence or chains from reoccurring in the future!
See, I think it's a little bit of both. Take my son, for example - I haven't been with his father (who was a very abusive man) since he was a toddler, and yet, as he gets older, he seems to be displaying many of the same traits that his father has, even though their time together is very restricted, and we try to raise him to be a decent person. He isn't nearly as violent as his father is, but he's far from perfect. Even my ex had never met his own father, who was a violent man, and was raised by his mother and stepfather - two very patient and caring people, yet he turned out to be violent. So, given that, I do think there is some sort of genetic trait that makes people more prone to violent behaviour, but it requires the example of violence to push them to that extreme violent behaviour.
Understand that behaviors are never inherited (the few instinctual behaviors such as suckling being the exception). Everything we do is learned. However, there are traits or the way the brain develops that people inherit that could lead to a propensity towards violent behavior. A classic example is poor impulse control. Another is an inability to regulate emotions. These could lead to violent behavior...
I believe it is learnt. Studies have been done and shown that certain events cause certain individuals to be more violent than others. For example most serial killers were sexually abused in their past, a lot of criminals come from very atrocious poor backgrounds. I'm not saying it's an excuse, but I don't believe that violent behaviour is genetic.
both! cause take this an an example. A Serial killer who just had a son it's passing it's rage and anger to the child in it's blood will be for all his life that feeling(but that doesn't mean that he can't change and be normal), on the other side, i is also learned of vewing a couple fight or even from watching animals fight..
I believe violent behavior is a learned trait that comes from how you are raised, and what surrounded the child. I felt my values came from my parents, I sometimes catch myself doing things that my parents did when I was a child.
Oh and of course it would have to be combined with environmental factors...
i think both