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No one is advocating assigning equal amounts of blame to both Rusty and Andrea. However, the fact remains that there were lots of outward signs that Andrea was mentally unstable and I think it's highly possible that there would have been additional obvious signs if you were living in the house with Andrea. I find it suspect that this woman was expected to continue to be the primary care giver to 5 children while in obvious psychological distress.
I think this case (And, arguably many murder cases) is much more complicated than the media has painted it; i very much doubt that Andrea was nothing more than an evil women who hates her children and i think society would benefit more from research into WHY she would commit such a horrible act than from only condemning her and doling out punishment.
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