Absolutely! Whatever the environment tells them is what is necessary/beneficial will be where their self-interest directs them to, so the rules of the game determine the behavior, even assuming a 100% tendency towards self-interest.

That would certainly make sense that those early stressors would play out in that way later in life. The concept of the 7 generation ripple, from so many different indigenous cultures, seems like something that has basically been scientifically proven at this point.