freshbalsam wrote:Unfortunately these kids know no different. They have no friends, they have no other life experiences to realize what goes on in their home is NOT normal.
Like someone said, abuse is abuse. I’m sure the Franke’s can’t comprehend that abuse is more than going hungry or having bruises all over. Emotional abuse runs deep.
Shari should not be the one addressing the issue and I’m confident it’s Ruby’s idea that she does to “prove a point” when it comes out of the mouth of her kid instead of her.
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I think that's a huge part of the whole "we don't need friends we have our siblings" mantra that Ellie, Ruby and Bonnie spew on a regular basis. They don't allow their kids to have friends really-- they have their siblings and cousins. They're allowed to have "crushes" because those get views, but the only "friends" they seem to have are other vlogger kids. And that normalizes the exploitation and emotional abuse.
I wonder just how much money Ruby has made off Chad. His Anasazi return videos got tons of views, his "relationship" with Kesley and any video with him in the thumbnail get lots of views. It makes her treatment of him even more despicable. He probably paid for that BVI vacation and probably their couple trip to the UK all by himself. Hell, she even loaned him out to Bonnie, who barely gives him the time of day generally from what I have seen. But he can't have a bed, or privacy or a freaking backpack to carry his books. If he had knuckled under and gone to private school, I wonder if Ruby would have treated him differently.
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