Yeah well if your kid tells you he wants to kill a bunch of people and your only answer is to buy him a gun, yeah — you’re culpable. But bars and liquor stores have been held legally liable for the damage done by drunk patrons for decades now, so it’s not exactly new.
How old is she? Her age seems to vary from 3-6. And her current behavior is on a par for a three year old. If this were real life, it would be an excellent slap upside the head to wake Brad up from his dream of 6 kids. That, or he’d learn to roll with finger painting. 3 yo’s don’t care that you have laundry and you can’t plop them in front of a screen for hours at a time and still claim to be parent of the year. Brad is learning that 2 firefighters in the family will mean decades of single parenting — unless someone wins the lottery (unlikely) or they parentify their oldest (what happened to Toni – and the source of most of her trauma).
I just said it’s a feeling I get from having seen far too many cases in my own family. And, if so, her husband is responsible for making sure she doesn’t do stupid stuff. Just like, if he had dementia, she would be responsible. At some point, family members need to take away the keys (literally and figuratively). Besides, even if she’s mentally competent, he’s enabling animal abuse and should be held accountable. She didn’t get that cage in there by herself.
I got the feeling the kidnapper has dementia and isn’t thinking things through (taking a stray with a blind eye on a show circuit??). She’d do better to visit pretty cats (or other pretty things), not bring them into the house. Which is why I think the real villain is the husband. HE should know better.
Yeah well if your kid tells you he wants to kill a bunch of people and your only answer is to buy him a gun, yeah — you’re culpable. But bars and liquor stores have been held legally liable for the damage done by drunk patrons for decades now, so it’s not exactly new.