[Aloysius]

My parents are great, I'm lucky - stable, stayed together, very much in love etc. When I was younger I had some hangups but now that I'm older, I'm just grateful that they provided so well for me, and that they helped teach me to be a good person (I hope I am a good person). A++.

Side note - can't find it but CMI made an interesting post once about nurture vs. nature wrt parent's influence on their children. (I also think CMI might be a biological determinist and study biology, but I am not sure.)

The gist of his post, IIRC, is that parents don't have much conscious influence over their kids - that if they choose to do X vs. Y, doesn't make much of a difference in how the kid turns out. Alot of parental influence is in subconscious cues determined by their own biochemistry, and what gets passed on - the true influence - on their kid is not controllable.

-Al