[Livia]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

I'm not removing blame from the woman, no more than I remove blame from a murdering rapist just because he himself might have been abused as a child. I'm not trying to say that she, personally, isn't mentally very "wrong".

But yes: the bewilderingly poor standard of interaction that passes as "parenting" is largely society's "fault", if you can call it that. More just a consequence of society. It can't really be "at fault". it doesn't have reasoning or direction, it's more just... Faulty.

Human beings are social creatures by instinct. Isolated parents sometimes end up not coping for many reasons. Parenting in isolation is unnatural.

People had things much tougher in the past, I don't understand why it's so particularly difficult for people now. There are a plethora of agencies sticking their oar in, and if they were better at it, stuff like this would happen less often.