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It isn't just being exposed to their parents personalities, it is the personality traits that get inherited genetically. The chances of a child of 2 cluster Bs being any less shitty than their parents is pretty low. They are going to inherit about half of their personality traits from their parents, when both are bad people for very similar reasons you end up with a whole pack of monsters in one household. Children have to harbor the capacity to grow into monsters in case that is what is needed to survive the world while they inhabit it. It is important for the possibility of sociopathy to exist and hopefully carry people through to an age where it isn't needed to get by (like now! we made it!). A very ugly part of the history of human beings on earth, but since its beyond anyone's control it is hard to worry about it too much. Tess's kids are well on their way to being whatever they will ultimately become. Don't worry too much.Geez, now that it's revealed that both parents are narcs, I really fear for Bowie. In my experience, a child of two narcs often ends up just as fucked up as their parents, and why wouldn't they? Poor guy. The odds are stacked against him.
Russel Greer is a good example of someone with the genetics of a shitty cluster b type family transplanted into a loving healthy family. It didn't make much of a difference for him to be taken up by normals, all things considered. Those types of personalities make for a really poor foundation to deal with their parents NPD bullshit OR abandonment, they end up horrible and bitter either way and there is no third option to fix them. It is a long chain of suffering that has the theoretical chance of correcting course, but almost never does.
I mean this generally of course. There are some people that miraculously make it out of such families with a semblance of a soul, it just isn't common.
If it is any consolation: tess will suffer horribly because of what she turned her kids into, she will depend on them as her health deteriorates and they will reflect the sort of "care" they received right back at her. You see this a fair amount when shitty people get old and are in and out of hospitals, their kids show up and act appallingly towards the sick parent. Since tess is a mega fatty she will go through all this at a much accelerated rate when her body gives out several decades early. She won't understand why she totally deserves the treatment she will get, but that's about as close to justice as such people ever experience.