“…Viewed interbehaviorally, ACOA patterns undergo a more comprehensive examination in terms of systemic effects of punishment upon offspring that result in avoidance and escape behaviors (Ruben, 1983, in press). The "interbehavioral" qualifier implies that these dysfunctions never are unicausal; multiple causes arising from heredity to ongoing deprivations in social learning account for problem behavior (Ruben, 1986(Ruben, , 1988(Ruben, , 1990Ruben & Delprato, 1987;Reese & Parrott, 1986). Reasons for causation are clearer when symptom predictors can be divided into behavioral typologies and acquisition of ACOA "rules" about behavior ("behavioral predictors").…”