Who's arguing that? What blows my mind are all these posts of speculation based on zero information about how the children were ACTUALLY being raised. Respectfully, when I point out what we DO know, you respond with the above. Don't you see the problem? Ignore what we know and come up with custom made scenarios based on guesses. <boggles>my mind</boggles>
There are a lot of WAGs with regards to how the parents were raising their children and what it must have been like for the children.
Speculation is okay as long as it's not against the TOS. People are speuclating that the home life was turbulent based on factors I outlined in an early post. It's a logical assumption. And as I stated before, we know there was some sort of problem in the family, between the parents or with one or more parents.
But regarding speculation, people are speculating that intense parental conflict and separation from a parent can cause or exacerbate mental illness in a child. There is more than a little evidence that there is parental conflict and parental separation in this case. It's documented in media articles, facebook posts, other public statements and court records.
And people are speculating that mental health issues may be a contributing factor to the murder of little Leila. If you think that's a stretch, I can't help you.
If you think that's being offered as an excuse, it's not. Personality disorders like psychopathy/sociopathy or borderline personality disorder, can develop from extremely fractured home lives or intense parental conflict/discord, among other things, in susceptible people. But none of it excuses the murder unless the killer was legally insane at the time of the killing - and covering up the crime pretty much negates that possibility IMO.
If you think that people are using that to say that mom was good person and dad should not have had custody, well, I can tell you I'm not. As I stated early on, there are usually good reasons why one parent has no contact. That is not something that occurs easily.
And lack of resources for an attorney or whatever is no excuse not to fight for your kids, IMO and in my experience. So I don't want to hear that excuse from Priscilla. I read a sentence quoted from her court documents and it was straight forward and well said. That woman has no problems communicating so she can fill out a declaration and file paperwork to maintain contact or to see her kids or have the father held in contempt if he prevents contact. There is a TON of information available on the internet as to how to do that. A persistent and committed parent would do whatever it takes, no matter what and never stop fighting for the right to be involved. So if one parent is uninvolved, there is likely a good reason the children have been placed with the other parent.
But comments about parental conflict in the context of the step-mother or dad's house were made because that's where the kids live and that's who they have contact with. So what mom may now be saying publicly about family discord is not as revealing when it comes to anger the children might have been exposed to in the home, as what dad or step-mom might say. And intense anger and parental conflict can cause intense emotional problems with children and intense emotional problems in children can contribute to their propensity to commit bad/evil/criminal acts.
I sure hope that's clear.