If you had said "I'm sorry for this mother's loss. We should all prepare our daughters for the evil that awaits them" that would have been a site different than what you did say.
Oh- and I'm one of the least politically correct people you'll ever meet. I don't suppose I should be offended by your assumption, since you assumed Taylor's mother didn't teach her daughter about the evil in this world.
You never met Taylor or her mother. How do you KNOW she didn't teach her daughter how to defend herself? You think that every girl who fights back lives?
Yes, I could have beat around the bush to satisfy the PC whiners here on FR, but that would have served only to obscure my point. I'm one of those people who believe in calling a spade a F'ing shovel. If I wanted PC, I'd go to DU.
As it is, the point is now made more forcefully than I could have hoped, and while the PC crowd is quick to accuse me of blameing the victim, at least the thought is in their heads that lack of parenting is at least partly to blame for bad choices and early deaths made by these very young women.
As for Tailors mom, I watched every interview televised of her, on all the networks looking for clues. Its quite clear she was clueless about her 17yr old daughter's life, calling her a stay-at-home girl, unaware of the 6 month sexual relationship with a 38 year old guy that pre-dated her going to college.
I know my daughters faults. She may not manage her money well, she may procrastinate, and her room was always a mess. But, at 25, she's well aware of the dangers in the world and well aware that being careful to only blame the perpatrator will not do her any good when she's laying on a slab in the morgue. As I posted in a prior reply to this thread, her comment about Natalie was "Stupid Girl! Dead Girl!".