Originally Posted by
redbaron
yeah I think there's some genetic thing that goes on for sure. My grandpa, my dad, my brother and my son are all very close in type. Two of them SEI-Fe and two of them IEI-Fe. (plus the SEIs might actually be IEIs)
And I believe very strongly that you're born with a type. That's not to say that environment doesn't affect it, only that the type itself is there from the beginning. It seems so obvious to me, having had three kids and looking back on my own childhood, etc.
Typing kids can be tricky at times because they're changing and learning so fast. Here's something funny: my brother in law is ISXj and he married ESFp. They had one boy and one girl. The boy is ISXj and the girl is ESFp. The kids are like mirror images of each of them. Makes me laugh.
My grandparents were duals. ESE and LII. They had five kids: ILE, IEE, EIE, EII and LII. Of those five kids, the first four married. Of those four marriages, two of them were duality, one was semi-duality and the other, supervisory (my EIE aunt married an alpha). Of the two dual marriages, one of them (ILE-SEI) couldn't have biological kids so they adopted. The other one (LSE-EII) ended up with a girl IEE and a boy XXX. The boy married but never had kids. The girl IEE, ended up marrying her dual, SLI and they're incredibly happy together, I might add. I do think that having her own parents as duals growing up probably helped her to know what sort of relationship she was looking for. Anyway, they have three kids now. XEI, XXX and IEE, with the last one exactly like her mother.
I don't buy into the "duals will have kids of the same type" theory. But this is a pretty interesting topic.
Oh, I also think it's interesting to note that in my family of origin there is an absolute lack of any Se-ego types anywhere. We're FULL of intuitive feelers with a smattering of Si here and there.