Daniel Siegel

“If, for example, your parent had a rough childhood and was unable to make sense of what happened, he or she would be likely to pass on that harshness to you—and you, in turn, would be at risk for passing it along to your children. Yet parents who had a tough time in childhood but did make sense of those experiences were found to have children who were securely attached to them. They had stopped handing down the family legacy of nonsecure attachment.”
― Daniel Siegel, Mindsight: Transform Your Brain with the New Science of Kindness

“Attachment patterns are one of the few dimensions of human life that appear to be largely independent of genetic influence. We can see this quite directly”
― Daniel Siegel, Mindsight: Transform Your Brain with the New Science of Kindness