Enabling bad behavior which has a remote chance of being “fixed” by appropriate measures is one thing. Living with and copying with a sociopath is quite another. If you think “normal” disaplinary, or otherwise measures, for a sociopath will accomplish the desired end then you simply do not have an understanding of the delima facing parents who cope with these individuales.
not copying...coping.....but, yeah, I hear you. Someone on this thread mentioned the book The Sociopath Nextdoor....and it’s next on my summer reading list. I don’t think you can help a true sociopath......but they just ensured she would walk the streets with us again....either way. I don’t have enough personal knowledge to conclusively say either way....BUT, the parents ARE enablers....whether they deserve sympathy or disgust, I don’t really know. I hope they don’t ever move near me.