Re: Children
...just some more thoughts....children CAN be evil. But that is learned. If they dont feel loved, if they dont feel important, if they are fearful....they learn very quickly how to manipulate. A child who gets no attention unless he/she is doing something bad...very quickly will learn to do bad things all the time. Because to them, even negative attention from a parent is better than none at all. But thats a bit off-topic.
To get back on the topic, my brother married a divorced woman who had a 5 year old daughter. The wife didnt give much attention to the little girl except when she was bad. So she was really bad. My bro got lots of attention from his new wife so this little girl hated him. She accused him of abuse and he went thru absolute hell because of it. Once my brother passed a number of polygraphs and the little girl had a number of evaluations with psychiatrists, it was determined that the girl had serious "issues"....She was sent to live with her biological father and has issues to this day (she is now about 25).
Its all about giving children what they need - love, security, warmth at home, open and honest relationship. I mean they really have to be able to feel comfortable telling you everything and anything.