For some reason I am not comfortable sleuthing or discussing SC's mother. Perhaps because she is deceased and played no part in Charli's murder. Rough childhood or not, SC knew better and he was aware of the consequences of homicide, hence the question to the coworker.
But can we just agree to leave SC's parents out of our discussions? It feels wrong. Sorry.
Sidenote: Rivera prosecuting SC's mom 13 years earlier is pretty ironic.
I am not blaming his mother, but looking at what Steven's relationship with her was like, which is not the same thing. Both Kim and Brooke have made comments that Steven's relationship with his mother was key. As a student of psychoanalysis for many years, I can't help but be interested in that.
whether or not he understands the law, and the desirability of not getting caught, that quality called a conscience did not develop in this child. His only concern with right and wrong is that getting caught for doing wrong ruins his plans. Something made him that way. She seems like a fun person in her posts and maybe she just had a hard life as a single mom, or didn't have time for her baby, don't know. I suppose I'm interested because I was a young single mom too. Most moms don't intend to mess up their children. It just happens.
The testimony on Charli and Steven's relationship from her family is that she was motherly, caring, and nurturing towards him, and yet he was never affectionate, never helped around the house, And she was older. A few years is a lot when one is 20. It seems pretty obvious that he was reenacting and playing out a child-parent relationship with her. And somehow, some of that hate he felt for his neglectful mother (per Kim) attached itself to the good and nurturing Charli.
Look at his crime. He literally attacked and destroyed a maternal body and the male child growing in her womb, his child, a version of himself that he would not allow to come to fruition. A child who was to have a loving mother, and grandmother, and aunts, lots of maternal side love -- but no father, as he had no father in his life.
I just don't think it is possible to understand his rage without understanding his childhood, so I am interested in what I find. That said, I was in denial about family dynamics and psychoanalysis until my mid-thirties, so I do understand not believing in it or not caring. And it's a frightening world to scrutinize, very dark.