If you are a smart person and have good genes in your family and your spouse also has good genes and is fairly intelligent then chances are you will have an intelligent offspring. But good genes cannot make up for bad parenting because even if you have a stupid child, but that child is well educated then the nurturing can make up for the stupid genes.

Good genes cannot always make up for bad parenting and if you properly nurture your child plus they have good genes than the chances are you'll have a superstar of an offspring and something to be very proud of you created. However, if you waste those good genes and do not educate your child properly you'll end up with a little monster who will end up costing society and civilization and taxpayers millions of dollars over their lifetime in destruction, rehabilitation, police, fire and prison systems.

Good genes cannot always make up for bad parenting and you have responsibility to nurture your child since you brought them into the world. It may take a village to raise a child, but it takes good parenting to monitor that everything is going successfully and it is your sole responsibility to make sure that happens.

It is not my responsibility to make sure that your good genes in your child make them successful. Just because you have good genes does not mean that you can alleviate yourself from the responsibility of proper parenting. Please consider this in 2006.