I don't attribute any child rearing attitudes and techniques to Cindy. No inside knowledge of how she raised KC is available to me. What I have seen is that KC passed scrutiny in high school and was at that time old enough to take a job and act in her own life as an adult. As far as I can judge the situation, the rearing was accomplished.
The choices that followed were KC's. I hold no one else responsible. Her choices were unwise to begin and worsened. As the months rolled by, she conducted herself with total abandon and led a double life. Cindy was witnessing swaths of this and, desperate for help and answers, sought advice from a therapist. As far as I
know, it was then that Cindy took up the cry of sociopath and thief! These epithets were true. I have no reason to believe such opprobrium was part of KC's upbringing.
I think KC's drug dabbling was disastrous. Sleeping around and hey, the town was running out of bed space, had consequences. I think she and Brian Snow created a pregnancy and then there was the gift of Caylee. I don't believe KC hated her child. I believe she was immensely indifferent to her welfare and happiness. Neglect leaves off where KC began with her mistreatment. Caylee was a tremendous bother, a nuisance, a pest and a weight around her neck. We've all been the object of hate at one point or another and, at some time and place the object of indifference. We know what those two attitudes feel like. People that live with indifference or hate as a steady diet say that indifference hurts more.
Spiteful





? That's way above her grade. She was reaching.