You're right, there ARE bad people that appear perfectly normal and *ok*. However, it has not been my experience that this is most often the case. I mean look around. Don't you have friends or relatives in relationships that you KNOW are bad for them, and even sometimes THEY will admit it, but they say, they love him or they can change him, or something else? Don't you want those women to take a look and imagine that THEY could end up dead or hurt, or their children might end up dead or hurt?
That's what I'm interested in. Getting the word out that women need to be careful. We can talk all day about the unfairness that women need to be more careful than men, but biology has dictated that we are not as physically strong, we are the ones who get pregnant, and they generally end up responsible for the child. None of this may be fair, but it is how it is. Until that changes, women need to make very carefully considered choices about who they have children with, who they live with, who they marry.
sundero
You are correct. In this day and age, no one wants to take responsibility for their choices and actions. There is an excuse for everything. Nobody on this thread has suggested that the woman deserved her fate, she certainly didn't. That said, she did make some questionable choices in her life that led up to her demise. If she had made more reasonable choices, ie waiting until marriage for sex, using birth control (this woman is in her 30's, she should have known how to use birth control) and not cornered some man with ultimatums. This Barbee character's wife let it slip that she didn't know Underwood was pregnant, which is consistent with the blackmail theory.