Ted Bundy grew up believing the only way to get someone to do something he wanted to do was to harm them. Ted and his mother moved to Washington in 1950 where she met a navy veteran named Johnnie Culpepper Bundy who she soon married. Soon after they ware married Eleanor had his name legally changed to Theodore Robert Bundy. Johnnie and Eleanor eventually had more children but Ted didn’t really find himself fitting with the new family. Johnnie tried to build a bond with Ted but he remained distant. He really didn’t find himself fitting in at school either which mad his childhood harder. There is a theory that focuses on the family environment into which the serial killer is born. A person’s environment can play a big role into shaping a person. As children, they were often rejected by their parents and received little nurturing (Lunde 94; Holmes and DeBurger 64 - 70). Most killers state that they experienced psychological abuse as children and never established good relationships with the male figures in their lives (Ressler, Burgess, and Douglas 18-19). With out a male figure there is no one for the boy to learn the man's version of right and wrong. It has also been established that the families of serial killers often move repeatedly, never allowing the child to feel a sense of stability; in many cases, they are also forced to live outside the family home before reaching the age of eighteen (Ressler, Burgess, and Douglas 19 - 20). Our culture's tolerance for violence may overlap with such family dynamics: with 79 percent of the population believing that slapping a twelve-year-old is neither necessary, normal, or good, it is no wonder that serial killers.