love–hate towards certain family members. Become a sex offender, possibly including pedophilia. Have difficulty forming healthy relationships within their peer group (usually due to shyness or a personality disorder.) Spend an inordinate amount of time alone watching television, playing video games, surfing the Internet, listening to music, going out for late night drives alone, and engaging in other activities which lack in-person social interaction. Feel angry, anxious, depressed, isolated from others, or unlovable. Have a speech disorder (related to emotional abuse.) Distrust others or even have paranoia. Become a juvenile delinquent and turn to a life of crime (with or without dropping out of school), and possibly become a gang member as well. Struggle academically at school or academic performance declines unexpectedly. Have low self-esteem or a poor self image with difficulty expressing emotions. Do not pay close attention to their own physical or mental health May be at risk of self-harm or suicide. Exhibits lack of organization in their day-to-day lives. Rebel against parental authority, or conversely, uphold their family's values in the face of peer pressure, or even try to take an impossible "middle ground" that pleases no one. Turning the tables by abusing their abusive elderly parents, upon the former reaching adulthood. Think only of themselves to make up the difference of their childhoods (as they are still learning the balance of self-love.) Have little self-discipline when parents are not around, such as compulsive spending, procrastinating too close to deadlines, etc. (unfamiliar, inchoate, and seemingly lax or avoidable real-world consequences vs. known, concrete, and rigidly imposed parental consequences.) Find an (often abusive) spouse or partner at a young age, or run away from home. Become pregnant or a parent of illegitimate children. Be at risk of becoming poor or homeless, even if the family is already wealthy or middle-class. Live a reclusive lifestyle without any spouse, partner, children, or friends. Have auto-destructive or potentially self-damaging behaviors. Join a cult to find the acceptance they never had at home, or at a minimum, have differing philosophical or religious beliefs from what they were previously taught. Strive (as young adults) to live far away from particular family members or the family as a whole, possibly spending much more time with extended family. Perpetuate dysfunctional behaviors in other relationships (especially their own children.) Positive Outcomes Although there are many negative outcomes that came come from growing up in a dysfunctional