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This is the old, and silly, nature vs nurture debate. Its debunked because we now know that its a combination of genetics and environment (such bad parenting) that can bring about issues

Such that someone generally needs to have the genetic predisposition for <mental_health_issue> in order for the bad parenting to surface it. In some cases the genetic predisposition is stronger such that we need less (or more) environmental influence to being about <issue>

While it's not entirely incorrect to say that <environmental_factor> (such as parenting or cannabis) can bring about <issue>, its also misleading because we don't get the full picture of cause and effect And as such we have people who go around on the internet claiming they know the ~one true cause~ because they read some mischaracterized study reported on by <media_institution>

Never listen to media institutions about singular scientific studies, the reporting is almost always entirely trash



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