Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.

Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.

Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.

Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.

I am the beneficiary of a lucky break in the genetic sweepstakes.

Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.