In Response to Megan Cooney's Question

Megan posed the question, "Why, do you think, parents will sometimes go to the extremes of either overprotecting their child and giving into every demand of their child?"

From perceiving different families as well as my own, I have seen that parents under discipline and over discipline their children for a multitude of reasons. When I was younger I was somewhat of a spoiled child though I never expected or asked for much. I believe that it was becuase of this that my parents saw fit to spoil me a bit. However, I know that this is not the same for all people. I have heard of some parents spoiling their children because they, as children, were never given much or were over disciplined. There are also those who were raised in a strict home and therefore pass that strictness on to their own children. I think there is a range in the spectrum of why parents vary in the extremes of the discipline of their children but I do believe that how parents protect/spoil/control their children is a direct result of how they themselves were raised.

So, my question is...If a person is spoiled throughout their childhood does that mean that they are going to act spoiled in adulthood? What of the other extreme?