True, and I think there are a lot of parents out there who put their needs first and think of their kids as extensions of themselves. I used to deal with them every day. Imo
Yup. You know kids with healthy parents don't typically end up in these situations.
Someone pointed out to me, as I criticized this mother for allowing an unrelated man into her children's life due to the risks to the child that that statistically poses, that dysfunctional parents are more likely to mate with other dysfunctional people (thus more healthy, funcional adults would be more inclined to pick partners that are safe around their kids).
There's a reason she picked DV. There's a reason she allowed him to be alone with her little girl. There's a reason she was steadfast that Maleah fell from a chair despite incongruent injuries. There's a reason she allowed this man to continue to be alone with her child despite these inexplicable injuries and CPS involvement.
There's a reason why she didn't call the police when he was whipping her medically fragile daughter. There's a reason why she didnt leave him despite this or despite the fact that she felt suspicious that he was bathing Maleah.
There's a reason why Maleah always appears well dressed and groomed in photos and surveillance but not once is seen at home with the damn helmet she's supposed to be wearing.
There's a reason why, despite her daughter being missing under the circumstances at play in this case, this woman passionately defended DV at length, on social media, lying by omission about all her "suspicions", and apparent facts about him whipping her child, them breaking up before she left (now she conveniently says it happened after she left), etc., etc.
Yeah. These cases fit patterns.
IMO it is not at all unreasonable to discuss things like narcissism, or in the case of people like Chris Watts, psychopathology, despite not having an official diagnosis, not even when we lack a professional psych on the thread.
Certain non-professional opinions about the possible mental conditions or personality defects of people in these cases can be logical given the patterns we see in these cases, I think.
