Working moms.
What a pickle of a nickname... “Dyl”. (dill)
I guess he was expecting the school to get promptly stormed and that was when he was planning to shoot himself after his and his friend’s raid of mysterious vengeance. But the fuzz cowered outside for hours.
With one 'trophy' child - if Dylan had shared a bedroom with a brother, the brother would have talked to Mom n Dad. Or possibly, Dylan wouldn't have been so messed up in the first place.
Really? Absentee parents or empty house, I could agree with you, but working moms, really? My four kids who are never- ever in a lonely house, and never without a parent or grandparent would probably not agree with that.