[malakhi]

They did not encourage him to copulate out of wedlock and raise bastard children while forging ahead with Terri's death.

They encouraged him to date, and even met a number of his girlfriends.

[Voir Dire]

They did NOT want him to petition the court to kill her.

Clearly that was not contemplated at that time.

And once he began cohabitating and fathering bastard children, they fought him to keep her alive.