While that may well be the case with some people, I don't blame Rusty because he's a man. It's not a male/female issue to me. It's a crazy/sane issue. This woman had to be hospitalized for acute psychosis after her 4th child was born and Rusty was warned by the doctors that having more children would be an extremely bad idea and in no way in her best interests. They both chose to ignore that, but I find him more at fault because he was the sane one. He ignored the grave danger to her and to his children because he wanted more children. He put his own desires before his wife's health and I find that to be profoundly selfish. And I'd feel the same way about the situation if he was the psycho and she was the sane one.
He ignored the grave danger to her and to his children because he wanted more children.
Did it ever dawn on you that it may have been her more than him that wanted another child and worked on him to let her have one? See, you don't know the inner workings of their relationship, so you choose to think the worse about the husband over the wife. You, nor anyone else knows who convinced who to have another baby, probably both. It's a lot harder for a husband to say no to his wife about having another child than it is to say yes. He shouldn't be blamed about that which we don't know happened between them. Their personal dynamics, and how they fed off of each others' needs. Give the guy a break.