Talk:Brian Crandall/@comment-32320502-20181204112209/@comment-36277500-20190413190624

It's a topic-river...

Let's say that there are some families where the parents favour some children more than others. Of course, favoured children can't hold themselves to not brag and show off before their less lucky siblings. If the parents are just a bit clever, they put some limits to the favoured kids to not abuse their advantages, at least for keeping the guise of fairness. But parents who are weak enough to play favourites rarely have much common sense, so they often turn the bling eye when favoured child tease their "worse" sibling.

Crandall's family seems to be the second type - not only playing the favourites, but also letting "better" child harass his "worse" sibling.

The situation is the more worse that Crandalls have very stiff conception of "ideal child" without any slightest compromises. They designated the roles for their children without asking their opinion, probably long before they were born or even conceived... They wanted their son to be a jock and their daughter to be a cheerleader (and what would they do if their children decided to exchange the roles?). Brian eagerly fitted to his part of image, while Skye broke out of it. It also added oil to the fire.

I doubt that Brian and their parents abused Skye physically, rather emotionally - throwing insults, public humiliating, excluding from family communion, comparing her to "good child" Brian etc.