Your brother Chad turns out to be a crazy, mass murdering cannibal, and is given a life sentence. You change your name, start a new life, and eventually have children. Do you tell them about uncle Chad, or do you try to keep him a secret from them?
It's very common to change your name. Hitler's great nephews in the US did it. Bundy's siblings did it. Dahmers brother did it. Andre Chikatilo's wife, son and daughter did it. Dennis Radar's wife and children changed their names. Anatoly Onoprienko's brothers changed their names.
It's common in both the US and Russia, probably around the world. If one of my brothers goes off the deep end and does that, I'm changing my name to Smith or Ivanov (same thing as Smith in Russia). I don't want the stigma.
If there's a hereditary factor I want to (you have to) address it while they are young in order to employ an intervention that will hopefully avert the behavior from presenting. So yes, we would talk about it.
Not when they're little children. I might tell him I have a brother who was very very sick and he's somewhere where he is safe. Probably in their older teens I would tell them the story.
I'd just tell them because if they find out via someone else then they'd probably get creeped out and wonder why I didn't tell them. They'd also probably then question other things iv told them.
Your brother Chad turns out to be a crazy, mass murdering cannibal, and is given a life sentence. You change your name, start a new life, and eventually have children. Do you tell them about uncle Chad, or do you try to keep him a secret from them?
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