Yes everyone is a product of their environment, their genetics and their decision making ability. If the first 2 factors are a negative it is more challenging to make the 3rd factor a positive. Personal accountability must always be a consideration. Without that people will often take the easy way and rationalize their poor decisions and subsequent beghaviour, because they feel they are a victim, whether real or perceived. A victim mentality never leads to good decision making.
The real problem is not the abuses, it is the lies the abused have accepted about themselves as being true.
@warminster100 Everyone makes decisions and there are consequences for those decisions. Once people accept this then they have a chance to not be a loser for life. Society does them no favours by giving them crutches and a shoulder to cry on.