I think this is a highly uncharitable read of his step-parents: 1. Adopting children and raising them as your own is already an act of extraordinary personal s

I think this is a highly uncharitable read of his step-parents: 1. Adopting children and raising them as your own is already an act of extraordinary personal sacrifice and blind love. 2. His parents were supportive of his hobby and interest in computers, but were also concerned about his social and behavioral development. They weren't the only ones -- folks at his school were similarly concerned. He had trouble sleeping and had no friends. Neither of those is normal and both indicate Edwin was in serious pain. 3. His parents likely weren't wrong that he was using video games and hacking as crutches instead of addressing the root causes of his depression and anxiety. They likely weren't wrong that these crutches were beginning to form a vicious cycle. There's nothing inherently bad about video games, but IMO his parents were probably correct to be concerned in his case. 4. Forming all of your closest relationships around involvement in destructive and unproductive activity that's criminal and driven by ego is a bad sign! Hacking websites is a crime; almost never violent, but also not victimless! Would you say the same thing about a child whose only friends are folks who he breaks into buildings with? 5. Turning away even a grown child is beyond sad, but at that point he was 22 and cooking up drugs in their house. And they had younger children.