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In reply to the discussion: Susan Klebold: "I Will Never Know Why" [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)the taunting and alienation Klebold is said to have endured at school? Or, which seems to be the main theme of this article, that her son suffered from depression and was suicidal which she did not know or suspect? The lack of knowledge about Mental Illness in this country and the lack of available help even when it is detected?
They were not bad parents in the traditional sense of that phrase. They provided well for their children, they loved them. As she says in the article, she began to question everything she did, even the fact that she had told her son how much she loved him shortly before the massacre. She wondered if that too was the wrong thing to do.
The only thing I would fault her for after reading the article, is that she, like so many parents in homes where both father and mother have full time jobs and are raising teenagers, she thought her son was old enough to be independent.
If anything could be learned from their story it is that teenagers are not old enough to be left to their own devices and that parents need to be very involved in their lives. But if her son was mentally ill, even that might not have helped. We just don't know.