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Obviously parental and familial influence is always important but just as obviously there are going to be numerous other factors which can override the parental aspect. A lot of well meaning parents can end up despairing what their kids become despite their best efforts. Particularly in London you're going to be open to so many other influences and when you get to a certain age there's only so much control your parents can exert over your actions. Look at Michael Adebalajo: his family were a hard working Christian one - are they responsible for his conversion to extreme Islam? Would they be pleased about it? We don't really know anything about Emwazi's family. We know they reported him missing to the police four months before it was discovered he was in Syria - who's to say they haven't been in contact with the security services this whole time? It's impossible to speculate.