We have seen another thread on this subject (can’t find the link, but I remember the commentary).
This isn’t as cut and dried a situation as we think; there are issues with the parents that cast doubt on their motives...
I agree, but a lot of the things I’m seeing that people are complaining about I look at and say, “well, I wouldn’t do it that way, but they are not my kids. And I’ll bet they are at less risk of prison, drugs, prostitution and other stuff than most inner city kids.”
“This isn’t as cut and dried a situation as we think; there are issues with the parents that cast doubt on their motives...”
Parents seem like a couple of lazy neo-hippies to me, living in filth out in the woods. I’ve seen the pictures of their “home”, which looks like the sort of thing a group of homeless men might put together in an urban park (actually, they’d probably do better than this). They’re living in the woods with 10 children and not even a place to live with a solid roof or walls. I don’t think the people who settled Kentucky, way back, would have considered a couple of ratty tents an appropriate permanent living arrangement for their large and growing families.