Gosselins
![[Post New]](/jforum/templates/default/images/icon_minipost_new.gif){kind=icon}
Anonymous
It was clearly Kate who expelled Collin but from what I've read it was Hannah's decision to move in with Jon. Kate didn't "expel" Hannah, it actually seemed to be more of Hannah expelling Kate, although Hannah has indicated that she and Kate are not totally estranged. Also, Kate showed up at H & C's high school graduation in PA, but only interacted with Hannah. Collin was only 12 when Kate sent him away- what the heck could be so nefarious that a 12 year old could do for his mother to 'expel' him? In a loving family, I can't think of anything. I have a 12 year old, and even if they did something truly truly horrible, I would still maintain contact! Maybe at a distance, but cutting my own flesh and blood off entirely, especially at age TWELVE, just doesn't compute. I'm thinking of something like murder...but if Collin truly did do something that horrible, you'd think that would have gotten out to the media, no? Long way of saying...I don't think anything majorly nefarious went down, I think Kate is just a narcissist and Collin wasn't afraid to call her out on her BS and that is just not ok in Kate's world. So he had to be gone. Just like Aunt Jodi and her husband, just like Beth Carson, just like her parents... |
Anonymous
| Where is the special on? |
Anonymous
We know where the money went. Kate used it to live on and pay for their private schools and her security. |
Anonymous
I can't believe that I'm defending Kate Gosselin, but do you remember what the frenzy and paparazzi situation surrounding both Kate and Jon Gosselin was like around the time of their divorce? With Jon going on yachts with that French designer who made those hideous tattoo shirts? It was totally bonkers. I can't blame her for putting the kids in private school during that time and for having to pay for security. |
Anonymous
I don’t know what happened in their family, clearly there is a lot of dysfunction there. However, there are things that a young child can do that can make it unsafe to maintain a relationship with them, this happened with my nephew. He had to be institutionalized at @ age 12 because he was psychopathic, he killed the family cat, abused both his siblings and attempted to harm every member of his family. While my sister and her husband did attempt to maintain a relationship with him once the extent of his terrible issues came to light they really couldn’t any longer and it was a heartbreaking situation. |
Anonymous
That's legality. Emotionally they are children. They should not talk publicly to strangers about their family. A therapist? Sure. Friends? Sure. Strangers all over the world? No. |
Anonymous
You don’t need to be defensive. I was providing an explanation to the PP where the money the kids earned went. |
Anonymous
| I think it seems pretty intuitive that in a family of eight children, six of whom were born at the same time, it is unlikely that even an intact family can effectively handle a child who has serious, chronic, emotional issues, much less a divorced couple. Hell, I think it would be a lot even if you had three kids, much less eight. The system would be overtaxed, and the emotional resources were not there or were likely not enough. They didn't have it. I can't judge her for what she felt she had to do, she has to live with it and I suspect it was a source of pain. We're not all mother Theresa. It was likely an overwhelming situation, whatever it was. And her son, if troubled, may have enraged her, it's true. Jon had too many issues as well, both were limited people emotionally and both were lacking empathy and strikingly damaged in their own ways. Their predicament made their limitations worse. It's tragic. |
Anonymous
| I’m almost embarrassed to admit it but I read the book about Kate that came out about 10 years ago or so. She’s had issues with Colin since he was a toddler and he received the brunt of her discipline/spankings. Whether he does have a diagnosed disorder or he was just a rambunctious child and negative traits were exacerbated by Kate’s behavior, it’s been going on for a long time. |
Anonymous
her parents will pouch her money soon enough |
Anonymous
Jon in those Ed Hardy shirts, partying with Hailey Glassman on the yachts! Jon was a big dating mess with younger woman and welcomed the paparazzi attention. He was picking up young women at the ski resort while he was still married to Kate and doing the show, sometimes while Cara and Mady were with him. More recently he had a fiance but Jon left her when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Jon wasn't concerned about his children's security. He's a man child. |
Anonymous
You know, there is something to be said for this theory - as some parents favor the kids that look like them, and shun the ones that look/act like the other parent/side. It is a big deal. If this is the case, Kate should be utterly ashamed. |
Anonymous
Josh Duggar is one example of why a 12 yr old should be sent away from siblings and get serious behavior therapy. You are very naive to think a 12 yr old can't do horrendous things to their siblings and other family members, pets, etc. Kate visited him at the institution, we really don't know what happened. |
Anonymous
Yes, my guess would be something like sex abuse of a sibling. That's significant enough to cause these types of family rifts for a variety of reasons. |
Anonymous
| If you don’t have a special needs child with severe emotional problems, you just can’t understand. I’m not a Kate fan—I think putting your kids on reality TV is proof of bad parenting—but I barely have time to help my survival needs child and I only have two. There was NO WAY she could deal with seven other kids. It’s easy to parent SPED kids until you have one; then it’s damn near impossible. |