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Security & Defense, Issue 2, 2023 Scientific journal

• 12 to 18 years (Adolescence) – Identity vs. confusion.
• 18 to 40 years (Early adulthood) – Intimacy vs. isolation.
• 40 to 65 years (Adulthood) – Generativity vs. stagnation.
• Over 65 years (Old age) Integrity vs. despair.
Each stage influences personal development. In search for the reason
for radicalization of the adolescent family members involved in the attack,
who were different ages – 9, 12, 16, 18 years old, we will analyse the stages,
in which the children of the terrorist family fall by age. They fall into two of
these eight stages – school age and adolescence. This fact explains the easier
promotion of a certain ideology and upbringing in the family, as a hidden
sequence of radialization and easier continuity of a given cause by the
children themselves in the family.
The first two children are of school age when they discover their own
interests and realize that they are different from others as individuals. There
is a desire to show that they can do things the right way. The problem is
whether they can cope with the world around them. If they receive the
necessary recognition from relatives and friends, they become diligent and
motivated to succeed. However, if they receive a lot of negative feedback,
they start to feel inferior and lose motivation. Family support is the key. If
the goals of the parents are directed towards "Jihad", then they use the
moment and show the right path to Allah. Feelings at this age are extremely
important. The feeling of sadness that the world is not as it should be,
coupled with the idea that one cannot change this situation, predisposes the
individual to terrorist activity. Then the need to change the personality
appears but accompanied by a reluctance for this to happen. Grief also
occurs– a final stage, which can turn into depression as an extreme form of
unrealistic sadness lasting long after the situation that initially provoked it
has occurred. Accumulation of these feelings results in anger. Anger is
similar to sadness because the world is not as it should be. But there is also
the idea that one needs to change things. When one acts out of anger, it turns
into aggression. If it goes into the subtype of anger - unrealistic anger - it
leads to hostility that can harm the person and others. When there is
awareness, there is also emotion, or at least an emotional tone, as the
existentialists point out.
The other two children aged 16 and 18 had already passed through the
previous stage and they complement their desires to carry out a terrorist
activity while strengthening the motivating factors of their stage.
Discovering or losing their individuality, they begin to search for their role.
Here lies the key to this stage, because if parents force them to follow their
way of life and thinking, they may do that following the role models which

have been established in the family.
The vision of ‘family terrorism’ may be chilling, but it should not
surprise us. More than ten years ago, US military intelligence officials in Iraq

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