[OldFriend]

Now we are blaming the 'village' and looking for root causes..............

[FITZ]

Root causes can be good to explore ---Charles Manson had a terrible infancy and childhood ---it doesn't excuse him but it's good to find what makes people tick. A sane woman doesn't marry a control freak and stay with him ---so her problems obviously started long before she met Rusty. But she and she alone made the decision to murder her children.

[spectre]

Not blaming the "village", oldfriend, just saying her partner (Rusty) was culpable.

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