Kathryn Paige Harden

I think an example of this that people from my generation will remember is the Columbine shooters.

So this was one of the first mass shootings in America in 1999, Columbine High School in Colorado.

And the writer Andrew Solomon wrote in his book, Far From the Tree, a profile of the parents of one of the school shooters.

And it's really clear from that portrait that these parents were not that different from your average

upper middle class affluent parents in America and they still ended up with a child who committed a really atrocious act of violence and have spent the rest of their lives wondering what happened there.

I think that that sense that there is a risk when you create a child that they might inherit genes that predispose them to these really serious behaviors.

is kind of a scary aspect of becoming a parent.

You're never fully assured of what you're going to get when you create a child.

I appreciate it.

Thank you for the opportunity.