Isn't it bizarre that Casey and her mother had to have passive aggressive discourse through their my space pages? The bickering continued even when they weren't around each other. Of course what the OP pointed out was in reference to what we now know was KC's secret weapon, murder, to win the final argument. In effect, KC killed the golden goose by which they all profited. And before anyone raps me on the head, yes, I know we're talking about a very precious little girl whose life was cut short. Poor little Caylee was used by both Cindy and KC to get at each others' throats when they weren't literally at each others' throats. In the grand scheme of this family, Caylee was a pawn, an entertaining pawn, but a pawn none the less. Cindy can consider her the baby, a gift, an angel, but Caylee would never have been allowed to be her own person with individual likes and dislikes, and needs.
I evidence this by the conversation Cindy had with her co-worker after the car had been retrieved from impoundment. In that conversation, she refers to Caylee five times as "the baby," not once calling her by her given name, and that's objectifying the child. Caylee could be anything and everything except seen as a separate human being. This is a family full of scripted characters, none of whom are allowed to be real in their own interactions with each other.
I'm of the opinion that direct confrontation only comes about in this family during times of crisis. Otherwise, everything is inferred, sidestepped or talked around through the use of manipulative actions and responses. I really believe the only way George could express his need for a time out is by threatening suicide. In this family, drastic feelings call for drastic measures. I don't think anyone in this family really listens or hears anyone else. I don't think this is a family who would ultimately trust a counselor or counseling. They're hanging onto their scripts with all their might. This isn't something that happened overnight, didn't fall from the sky. This is multi-generational, and in a psychological sense they're all victims. Victims grow up to be perpetrators though, so what was perpetrated on George and Cindy as children is repeated with their own children.
In going back over Lee's interview with LE, I noted inappropriate chuckles at what should be serious moments. I take that as a measure of his personal distress. Here's a person who in the past has not been allowed to openly express how he feels within this family, something that's gone on since childhood. This is how inappropriate responses develop, and it wasn't the child's doing or adult Lee's doing. It was the environment he grew up in. In order to break the cycle with his own child, yet to be born, Lee will have to decide to be Lee, and say to h&ll with what everyone else in this family expects of him, and break with the toxicity of his parents with whom he's currently enmeshed. Lee is the hope for this family. He has not yet realized his power. If there's to be any healthful change in this family, only he can bring it about through his actions. The rest are too far gone.