Let's be honest, there's something very wrong with Anna's family.
All three daughters struggle with mental illnesses and all chose an uncommon lifestyle. Two struggle with severe eating disorders, the other one is still financed by her mother and doesn't seem to be working.
Margret doesn't do anything but love, heart and like their pictures, no matter what it is: Annas ED or child exploiting posts, minas selfies/photos where you can see all her bones and she looks like a skeleton. I think this woman has big issues herself and just gave up on her poor daughters.
And same with her grandchildren.
Jonathan's family always appeared to be pretty normal. I wouldn't judge them if they decided to avoid the weiro of their family.
I don't think Jonathan listens to any criticism, neither from his "haters" nor his family.
Those poor helpless children will always be locked in this sick environment.
Yes I agree with you, Margaret hasn't exactly had an easy life continuing to raise 3 daughters after her husband died there certainly would have been an onset of challenges and different problems presenting itself along the way as the girls got older for sure as we can see with Anna and her sisters that's a definite, without a doubt. And I definitely recognize and accept you can't change the mindsets of evil monsters like Anna & Jonathan, even if any of their family members did confront them J would have gone on the counterattack and deny, deny deny everything.
I think my point was as much as it may be futile by all accounts and knowing that sadly not even the SJ kids can be helped by SS because they aren't classified as a 'severe' enough case that fit SS criteria of being in significant harm, I was thinking along the lines of and its not a question of if but when that day comes when they are in therapy and with a whole host of other issues that will follow and they say
"but if everyone in our family knew what was going on with the horrible set of circumstances we were in and how we were exploited in plain sight and now we have lots of mental anguish, anxiety and pain and feel our lives have been destroyed having our childhood played out for all to see at the hands of our parents, why didn't Oma, Grandma, Grandpa, Aunties and Uncles say something to mum and dad, why didn't they try to help us why didn't they try and put a stop to it", knowing they had that direct access and line of communication with them. " But Oma used to like all the posts that mum and dad put online that we were in, with a thumbs up etc did she think it was okay, I don't understand".
I guess that's the angle I was coming from but I certainly agree and see what you are saying for sure. It's such a difficult and frustrating situation no matter how we look at it. I feel sick about it all.