Messages By: leftygirl1

I was outraged at Victoria's mother.  I can't even express how angry I was.   

How in the world can you single out one child to lavish attention upon, and practically ignore the other one?!  It boggles the mind.  It makes one wonder if she really loves either of them, or if she is even capable of loving them. 

Then, she has the nerve to say that she loves Victoria, because she feeds and bathes her?!  I feed and bathe my dog, but that hardly puts my feelings for him on par with my feelings for my children. 

Dr. Phil stated that she has a stepson, which I assume means that she's married.  I wonder how her husband feels about her treating her daughter like garbage?   

I also have a couple of petty comments, which I would not normally make, or even think, but this woman really deserves them: 

She spoke about being intelligent, yet she consistently used incorrect grammar, and she couldn't seem to quite grasp her own hypocrisy, even when Dr. Phil pointed it out to her.  Also, she speaks about being pretty, and said that if her elder daughter went through an awkward phase she would "fix it," yet she hasn't bothered to fix her own teeth.  The front ones looked crooked.  She may want to get them fixed, lest someone think she's "scum."   

Did you even watch the show?  First, I don't think there is a Julie in this scenario.  It's Keri and Cari.

Second, Keri cheated on Ken!  Twice!  It was established that he didn't get together with Cari until after Keri had moved out with her boyfriend.  How did Cari break up their home?  She didn't force Keri to have affairs, and she didn't force Keri to move out and in with another man.  Just because Keri was married to Ken does not mean he is her property for the rest of her life.  He's entitled to move on. 

Cari seems to love her step-children, and it's unreasonable to expect anyone to put up with someone like Keri.  I don't know how anyone would believe anything she said - she lied right to Dr. Phil's face about the child support.

The kids would benefit from the child support.  I don't know their specific arrangement, however, when one parent receives cash assistance from the government, the government agency will not allow them to receive the child support being paid by the absent parent.  You can get one or the other, but not both.  If the children would benefit more from receiving the child support than the government assistance, then their mother needs to continue to choose not receive the government assistance.  It's basically up to Keri whether she receives child support or not.  Frankly, I think she is choosing not because of her "oh, poor me," attitude.  It's very shocking to think that he lives the way he does, and she has to be on public assistance, until you realize she is choosing to live that way.  

What I would have liked Dr. Phil to address is why Keri isn't working to support her children.  They are not solely Ken's children, and they are not solely his responsibility to support.  Working for the "welfare office," as I do, I know that the income guidelines for cash assistance are EXTREMELY low.  She couldn't be working and receiving. 

I think it was all put on Keri because she was bitter, and practically every time she spoke she either out and out lied, or bent the truth.  Cari showed no comtempt or disdain for the children, and yet people on here are accusing her of disliking her stepchildren!  I can't believe the number of people who are siding with her on this message  board.  I think there are a lot of people on this board who saw what they wanted to see, and not what was really there.   

No one HAD to take the test.  The original show was about backstabbers.  The issue was between the two sisters.  If Stacy's husband did not want to sit on a national stage and endure more of his SIL's accusing, I don't blame him. 

This follow-up was just more of the issue between the sisters.  Again, there was no reason for him to come if he chose not to.

He has already been exonerated by the police, the DA, and CPS.  He is not required to prove his innocence to his SIL or to Dr. Phil's viewers.  Everyone who matters was satisfied that nothing is/was going on.

I don't believe that Christy has an interest in protecting her sister's children.  She said as much herself.  She said she wanted to stop the violence and abuse in her family.  Well, there is a really easy way to do that - just leave Stacy and her husband and children alone.