You know, I commented earlier about this whole assistant thing, but the more I think about it, the more telling I think I find it.
They are asking for some incredibly personal help, and are looking for someone, a stranger, essentially, who will be in their home and potentially working very closely with them in a time that will probably forever change the direction of their lives (even more than it already has thus far). It's also an incredible risk having a total outsider.
The fact that they apparently are needing this degree of help (for not one, but two members of the family) and are reaching for total strangers to do it, even with the risks of it, nevermind just someone unknown being that intimately tied to them for some length of time.
Do they live in such an isolated state that there is no one around them to help in this capacity. I understand some outside help, but this extent for two people? That to me says they're really getting very little from those around them. Is that because there is no one they're that close to to either ask or that has volunteered? Is that because those around them aren't really rallying around them because they don't buy all this? Either case is sad, because I think that probably speaks to their outside support system.
We've had just the one friend Holly speaking out on NG, and other than that, there's been virtually no one coming forward who claims to know them as a family. In every other case I've followed, and it's been a lot, family, friends and neighbors often put their lives on hold to help, be there, just be faces helping put the face of the missing person forward. Here there's been none of that. Not a single neighbor (that I've seen) coming forward telling cute stories about Caylee, no family members sharing recollections of holidays and saying how much they want her back unharmed, etc. And surely there are those people, but they're not out there making Caylee even more real to the public (something which I think often goes miles in getting the public to get out and search, etc.)
All of that, combined with looking for complete strangers to be this much a part of their lives, just...makes me hope there really is more of a support system than it seems ::somewhere:: because I really fear they're going to be needing a heck of a lot of it down the road, even more than they probably do now.
