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Unsupportive family conditions is one very very important aspect.

But family is not everything, I think. There is enough outside of family that intervenes and does harm to the family members from outside. Family is no save haven, I am afraid. It can be supportive and protective, yes, but I fear, there are limits even to the strongest homes.

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Yes, the support the family is able to give is influenced by outside conditions.

I suppose in the early days of humanity, humans were often on the brink of extinction, so that desperate methods of survival developed which were not really conducive to mutual support on a large scale. Maybe that is no longer true, so that we should be able to develop better methods of cooperation, influenced less by the anxiety of feeling ourselves close to annihilation. When anxiety is reduced, we are more able to think clearly and use our powers of reason to examine what is going on around us and within us.