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How to break cycles of criminal behavior across generations

My teenage son just got arrested for the same kind of thing my brother went to prison for and everyone keeps saying boys will be boys but I see the family pattern starting again

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More people experience this than they realize.

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You're watching family dysfunction repeat itself in your child and feeling desperate to interrupt a pattern that destroyed your sibling.

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