magic-cat
Mother to Many
Sure Casey had a choice and this was that choice however, I do not think it's a coinsidense that both Cindy and Casey are dramatic & erratic liars with controling personalities with the ability to idealize and devalue the same person at the drop of a hat. I also don't think it just so happens that they share the same unhealthy defense mechanisms and emotional dysregulation as one another.
yup, Casey is an adult and made her own choice in doing whatever she has done to Caylee. Casey alone must answer to that, I'm sure Cindy didn't tell her to do this you are right. But it would be a shame if you choose to continue to walk through life with blinders on when it comes to behaviors such as these. If you see someone, a loved one perhaps, acting this way, more than likely something is wrong with the way they are coping in this world and they need help whether that help comes in a pill or through therapy remains unseen but these behaviors should not be ignored!
Good kids can come from bad homes and bad kids can come from good homes. In THIS case it's obvious what we are seeing in Casey is learned behaviors and coping skills.
In all honesty, and I am not being cold or callous or mean-sometimes the best treatment is to start a new life over on your own, choosing who is your family rather than accepting that the dysfunctional and sometimes maniacal one that you were born into is your fate. It is no one's fate to live life with the "crazies" as I like to call them, the family that I left behind for this very reason. Sometimes, it is time to walk away, when it is obvious that no one around in your circle of family thinks like you, listens to any of the very good and sound advice that you offer them, and continue daily to do immoral and inconceivable acts to one another and YOU in the name of love and family. There is a line, and I know it, because I crossed it and I have never gone nor looked back. I look forward. I choose SANITY!