Adam Lanza’s Father, in First Public Comments, Says ‘You Can’t Get Any More Evil’

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94. This is the best reply here, imo.

Even in this time of severe cuts to mental health facilities, commitment would not have been difficult in Adam's case. It takes parents who are seeking help, a doctor's opinion, & a judge's order. There may be a long waiting list for the patient to be placed in the state facility, but in the interim the patient could be hospitalized in another facility.

Unfortunately, the father seemed to have given up on his son. Knowing now that his thoughts about his son were detached from unconditional love for a more pragmatic view, he would have been the stronger one of the parents to have taken the steps to have Adam committed.

My guess would be that Adam's mother was in denial; her way of coping with the heartbreak of her son's illness must have been to hide her head in the sand. Her spirit could have been mired under severe depression, paralyzing her ability to deal with her son. I'm completely stumped, though, as to how she couldn't have recognized that guns in her home was asking for trouble.