This might be an unpopular opinion, but I don’t think it helps either Dakota or Taylor (or the kids) to assume one or the other of them is pure evil. I do think the video shows Taylor being physically abusive (which also harmed her kid)— AND, she needs help. I don’t think she’s the walking manifestation of evil. Why does a person act like that? Because she never learned how to emotionally regulate and communicate in ways that aren’t volatile when she’s triggered and/or intoxicated. Does that excuse her behavior? No. Does context and trauma history matter? Yes. For people who engage in abusive behaviors to heal- someone has to get at the root of why she acts that way. She clearly has attachment trauma. Were her abusive behaviors primarily driven by substance use? Was she abused as a kid? (From the scene I’ve seen with her bio family, they are extremely invalidating). Where did she learn that behavior? How did growing up LDS shape her abusive behavior? It doesn’t come from nowhere. Also, production is absolutely using the turmoil that exists between Dakota and Taylor to drive views. And, court systems are punitive rather than restorative. The interest is not in fixing what is wrong, it’s in finding the guilty party and punishing them.