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

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149. I read the long one in the newyorker and this one

and the sad story for all of is (as it affected us all) is that a mentally ill child killed so many people...

Clearly the child was mentally ill. Clearly the mother was drowning trying to save him.

By his late teens the child did not want to see his dad. Yes, it is delicate. But reading through it all, I get the idea that this man walked out a decade before. He divorces the wife and troubled son to continue his life. Her's sinks with the mentally ill child. He gets to call the child evil and wish he had not been born. But he is alive to say this.

But this path, this path of the father being edged out started a lot earlier. This is a high achieving guy, a work-a-holic. Made lots of money and had/has lots of responsibilities. Most likely very impatient with the son, the mother always trying to protect the son from the anger and resentment of the father. The pattern started and then went on towards its so very tragic end.

To answer your question, yes and no. Only for relatively short periods of time.

I am sorry that you are experiencing this. It is very hard to go through.