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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That’s the plot to We Need to talk about Kevin.  [/quote]

No, not exactly. One of the primary themes in the book and the movie adaptation is Eva's ambivalence about motherhood and her struggle to bond with Kevin and meet his basic emotional needs in infancy. Then she has another child who she clearly has no trouble bonding with and showing deep affection for, with Kevin as witness. It isn't clear in the book/movie if he was all born psychopath, or if he was made that way in part by his upbringing/attachment issues.[/quote]

+1  this is exactly how i interpreted it.[/quote]

So tired of mothers being blamed for this stuff. It's like the debunked theory of autism due to cold "refrigerator mothers". Adolf Hitler, by all accounts, had a loving mother (though a distant father).[/quote]

Agree. And imagine how hard it would be to bond with a baby/child who never showed any love back. She connected better with her non-psycho child because thats how human relTionships work.[/quote]

OP here. I actually think the girl is quite attached to the mother. That is why I started wondering about the parents and thought maybe they weren’t as nice as they seem on the surface. I’m fine not being friends with this family. The dad and son are really sweet. DH and my kids like them. The girl scares me enough that I would prefer to distance ourselves from them. I’m so glad we don’t go to the same school.[/quote]

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