Interesting analysis.
I have a sister who is Bipolar with Histrionic personality disorder as well as borderline P.D. I am raising her daughter as my own.
I'll never forget the night that she first gave her to me. She said to me, "I don't love anybody and nobody loves me."
She is one of four children brought up in an upper middle class home. She was privately educated and had a stay at home Mom. My parents are merely shadows of the people they once were because of all the heart ache she has brought to them. They continually felt that they could fix her or save her. If you look up co-dependency you'll see that one of the symptoms is a saviour complex. I think Ca and GA are typical enabling co-dependents that have been beaten down by their overbearing daughter. Lee has also been affected by this just as my two brothers have been. Every one runs around trying to make everything seem like it's great when it's not. Family members who value integrity begin to make excuses for lying when it's about protecting the family. The parents feel overwhelming guilt and are constantly beating themselves up over real and imagined parental shortcomings and have to come to terms with the fact that this adult child will never be able to take care of herself. The promiscuity is part of the disorder and this particular symptom is one of the hardest for the Dad to deal with. I don't think George molested his daughter but he probably blames himself for her promiscuity. He probably wonders whether he gave her enough love and attention and Casey uses his guilt against him and this drives a wedge between CA and GA. GA in an effort to make it up to Casey gives in to her whims while CA is trying to make her accountable and they probably fight about it all the time.
I could go on and on I've seen it, I've lived it. My parents are strong Christians who value morals, integrity and the sanctity of marriage, but they've lied and come close to divorce a couple of times because of the strife caused by my sister. When my sister gave birth she was high on meth and my Father lied to child protection services in order to keep them from taking the baby. My Mom and Dad both continued to help my sister make it appear as if she was caring for her baby all the while knowing that she wasn't. Weeks would go by and we wouldn't know where the baby was. She would say she was with the baby sitter, but my sister didn't have a job. Social Services became suspicious and began contacting me directly. I was the only member of my family who was willing to be this beautiful baby girl's advocate. I fought for her with no support from my parents and at times they made things harder for me. When my hubby and I finally got custody of her my parents demanded that we allow my sister visitation even though the court order specified that she could only have visits after completing drug rehab and several other things.
My sister would go a month without seeing the baby and then decide to throw a fit at my parent's house trying to get them to pressure us. She is violent, she has attacked my Father, my youngest brother and my Mother, (she cut my mom's face open), but my parents demanded we allow her to see the baby. They accused us of, "hiding behind the skirts of the court", "denying a baby the warmth of a Mother's touch", and even told my husband that he was immoral for not allowing her visitation. We stuck to our guns and we are now in the process of adopting our wonderful baby girl. We also have had to remove ourselves from my family. We no longer have contact with any of them. Even my brothers felt that it woukd be ok to put the baby in jeopardy and go against a court order to make my sister and parents happy. Tiime and time again I have said to my husband that this little baby girl was expendable to them. It's all about my sister.
I only wish Casey had had an older sister that maybe could have seen through the madness and taken that baby out of there.
I'm sorry for the long post, I just had to share. Hubby and I feel that our baby girl could have been just like Caylee.