I want to believe in that model for human nature, but I think you would only have a minority of people actively avoiding their parent&#x27;s mistakes. Too often, things like cycles of bad parenting (from lack of discipline and care, all the way along the spectrum to abuse and neglect) seem to repeat. It&#x27;s not that people want to do these terrible things as they were done to them, but often we don&#x27;t know any better or it&#x27;s what feels familiar.<p>That, and poverty and bad education are big risk factors for teen pregnancy, and being born to poor, poorly educated people isn&#x27;t likely to lead to you riches and a fine education.