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You all remember the tv show Wife Swap, right? It was super popular when I was growing up. The premise of the show was that two very different family dynamics would swap the matriarch in the family for a week. They would follow the host family's rules for the first half of the swap, and then the new wife would implement new rules the second half of the show. It basically allowed the families to see how other American families operated, and maybe find new rules they could adapt into their own household. I always found it to be pretty interesting to watch play out because they always picked two families who could not possibly be any more different from each other.
Tonight, we’re going to talk about one family in particular that was featured on Wife Swap, the Stockdale family, who lived a very restrictive lifestyle. Jacob Stockdale would go on to kill his mother and younger brother in cold blood, and after seeing how the Stockdale’s parented their children, you’re probably going to wonder if maybe this could have been avoided. Was this a case of nurture or was Jacob destined to kill? Let’s talk about it.
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