Some people are able to break out and rise above the circumstances of their upbringing and some are not, may even latch onto it willingly. I can't help thinking of some of the missing child cases going right now, where the obvious question has been "who would not call 911 when a child is injured" for example...well, I think a lot of people wouldn't, depending on how they were raised and how they felt about LE "in their business" etc...I think certain families have a mentality that only those who remain matter, i.e. survival of the fittest, almost, and once someone is dead, it is time to close ranks and protect the living. I know I am rambling a bit, but I think people here at WS sometimes forget that the families and people we read about here are not (hopefully) the average, everyday families like those we know, with the values most of us have.
All that said, with JP now dead and having killed his children, I can't at all understand the lack of grief and remorse from most of his family on behalf of the children. JP is dead, he won't be punished by LE now, and still, they can only defend him? And not the kids?? We know once Susan was gone, his family members acted like she never mattered at all (except for the exception of one sister and her husband, I believe.) So I guess it should not be too shocking...but it still is. JMO