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His boomer parents probably abused and neglected him to a crazy degree. The guy was in rehab for the first time at 15. I grew up around some pretty shady kids and I knew a few that were deeply into drugs around that age, in and out of juvenile hall, etc. Every single one of them had absolutely FUCKED UP parents. Not talking about obvious stuff either, their parents looked perfectly nice and normal to everyone on the outside, and were always experts at playing the victim.
The reality is though that if your child grows up and stabs you to death, you as a parent failed absolutely. He isn't a "spoiled brat" or "just a bad seed." YOU are solely responsible for your own children's development, and if your kid is addicted to hard drugs as a 15 year old, that's on YOU, not the kid.
I'm not saying parents are responsible for their kids in perpetuity, but for an adult child to have so much anger and hurt that he murders his own parents, well, something went wrong there.
My parents were divorced alcoholics and I'd say my upbringing was unstable at best. As an adult I don't have the best relationship with them (I keep them at a distance because they're nuts) but I would never DREAM of stabbing them to death.
I guarantee you Reiner's kid lived a special kind of hell growing up.
Total boomer death.