This is replying to RosalindaA post from previous thread, hope it works!

Personally, the murders of children have me convinced that these perpetrators are a very different breed of killer, from any other kind. And whilst I wholeheartedly agree that no one else is responsible for their deeds, I do think that the ability of a father to murder his 3 and 4 year old daughters is so disturbing that we are almost compelled to explore what was behind the development of this particular monster. Their families bear not so much responsibility but testament to their defective and abusive characters. I won't go into it further as regards the Watts because it has all been said here many times over, but I believe the pattern of family dysfunction seen here and in other cases is too glaring to be coincidental. Sorry if that is rambling, I feel very tired after having read so many posts today and I'm starting to not be able to construct proper sentences and paragraphs.Apols Tortoise, trying to answer your post and having gremlins. I should have been clearer to state that we see a lot of blame attached to mothers in particular to all types of murderers (and rapists/criminals). FAs are an interesting and very rare (thank God) category of murderer but in many respects they act and "are permitted to act" by the same type of psychological make-up as other types of murderers....self-gratification, lack of conscience, ability to detach, arrogance etc, etc.
And a lot of the information is necessarily indirect, anecdotal and sometimes provided by the murderer themselves only which may well involve self-serving lies, especially about what caused them to develop. Real scientific research about this aspect of FAs/ murderers is very hard to come by, any links welcome.
Again, sorry can't quote at the moment but pretty much agree with Gitana's (996) great post above. The primary focus needs to be on Christopher Watts. I do think a lot of Mrs. Watts behaviour has been caused by CW's cowardly refusal to admit what he did face to face with her. I think this is allowing her to continue with her delusions. What a valuable piece of research would a videoed conversation between them be. Whatever I think of her statements personally, I can understand this freezing out is affecting her very adversely and in turn, causing great distress to Shannan's family and friends.
