I found an article on deviance that deals with a serial killer and how his home life was based off of deviant behavior. The serial killer, Kyle Alegria, was found guilty of kidnapping, raping and sexually assaulting a seven year old girl. A psychologist inspected Alegria and stated that if Kyle's parents' goal was to bring up a kid who has a good chance of being a criminal with sexual and violent deviance, they did a great job. As a young boy, Kyle Alegria was exposed to domestic violence, pornography and violent horror movies as a young kid. By the age of three years old, Kyle was already watching porn in which both of his parents encouraged. His parents wanted his addiction to these types of things to flourish. When Kyle was about seven or eight, he was raped by another neighborhood kid. Even though Alegria's parents both knew about this raping, they took no action and thought nothing of it. Alegria would go on to tell his psychologist that he would often times have sexual fantasies about his mother and that most of his life, images of sex and violence were engraved into his head. It goes to show that if you are raised in a certain way, it will most likely carry on as life progresses. If you are taught as a young child that sex and violence are an okay thing, you will most likely take these teaching and accept them as moral standards. If a set of parents would like their son or daughter to grow up and be someone society can respect, do us a favor and raise your kids the right way. Young kids look to their mom and dad as influences and if parents aren't very good people and have unacceptable principles, your kid will most likely soak up the way they live and follow the example of his or her parents.
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