Am I the only one that thought the parents got what they deserved?

Sorry. I don't consider murder being what they deserve.

Let's be bad guys.

At the beginning she did take him to the doctors and they told her he was fine, 'nothing wrong with him'. It wasn't a therapist but it was a doctor telling her that Kevin was fine.

I agree that Eva and Franklin were not good parents, but that doesn't mean they "got what they deserved". I do feel a *little bit* sorry for Kevin, but only a little bit. Sorry, but there are lots of teenagers with intense psychological issues who don't murder their father and mentally abuse and sexually harass their mother. And my feeling is that even if Kevin got psychological intervention, he would just manipulate it to convince everyone that he was fine and then just do the crime anyway, the way several real life school and mass shooters have in the past. That's not to say he shouldn't have gotten psychological intervention, but the fact remains that the moral culpability for his final act of terror rests on him and him alone. In the book he even said in a TV interview that he did not want people's mercy or sympathy and that he knew exactly what he was doing, and that was before he even started showing faint signs of the possibility of remorse.

I think they were good parents. Eva really tried but Kevin always hated her. I think if Franklin had been more supportive of her, she would have gotten help. It's clear that Franklin is the love of her life and I don't think she would do anything to push him away. That Kevin was in high school by the time they were discussing divorce makes it clear that she bit her tongue a lot. She endured years and years of Kevin's behaviors for the love of Franklin. I'm not sure the spite-baby they had was a great idea though. At least that's how I took her decision not to tell Franklin she was pregnant until she was fairly far along. She got pregnant to spite Kevin and didn't tell Franklin in case he wanted to terminate. Anyway, sorry for the long post.

I'm not so sure I actually thought they were bad parents. If anything I'd say the dad was because he was oblivious and ignorant to his son but how many parents don't notice signs their child is depressed or having issues? The mom had a very tense relationship with the son but I think she just didn't know how to deal with him. She tried to get her husband's support but he always blew off her concerns.

There are much worse parents out there than the ones in this movie. I honestly think people are too harsh to judge parents. I knew plenty of teenagers growing up who acted as if their parents were awful for having boundaries, for nagging them or other stupid things. If you have parents who support you and provide a good home you're actually pretty lucky. Also there are lots of children growing up in conditions where parents are drug addicts, homeless or extremely poor, abusive etc and these children don't turn into mass murderers. The parents in this film absolutely did not deserve what happened.

Not an either/or situation. Both Kevin and parents were to blame. Kevin for being evil right out of the womb and the parents for self=delusion and not manning up when they needed to. Dad was the worst.

...Kevin was on prozac. He was seeing a professional. Kevin has a personality disorder and those aren't treatable unless the patient wants to change, and Kevin doesn't.

Eva should have gotten help for herself, certainly, but she was trying, when everyone else (in the movie) were saying Kevin was fine and she was the problem.

The dad though...I kind of agree.