sometimes. if a parent is trying to control their child it is one thing. but if they are sitting there and going "oh well what can you do?" when their kids are acting horrible. then hmmm. all kids have bad days. so I would hope we would not put the "bad parent " stamp on them. parents who never ever make their kids mind I would avoid.

To an extent this can tell you something about a person. Most children will reflect a part of their parents. However, there are exceptions when a child will act in a way that the parent cannot control.

Not so much by how their children behave as how they respond to how their children behave.

Let me make it clear that I never judge a person on the behavior of their children and hope you don't either. It's not about judgement anyway. It's about psychology, but with a twist of creativity involved. It is to be expected that certain things a child does often enough could be related to the behavior of their parents, such as hatred expressions but at the same time, keep in mind that community circles and peers play a large part in many things that are often blamed on parents and as children grow they become independent of parents views and take on more of their own identity. I have known many children, ( clients ), who, after meeting their parents, I was not sure they were related. :)