Obviously Nathan was the bad guy and he is the one who chose to take the lives of her parents but man it is always the innocent ones that have zero say in the choices made that get caught in the middle and lose their lives. Some of the victims on the show say I grew up in a dysfunctional home, I knew no better but she grew up in a loving home with a mother who was her best friend and a father who loved her and tried to protect her but she still chose to be with a man who had the exact opposite values to her family. Like that father tried man and failed him and his wife ended up losing their lives.
She was loved and supported by her parents all throughout that pregnancy but she still chose to fight for a man who denied her child from the moment of conception. It never bodes well when a guy who has been sleeping with you denies that child. You are better off getting rid of that child if you can't handle the task of being a parent or better yet write the guy off completely and take the loss.
No good ever comes from trying to convince a heartless person to love their child cause they don't and 99.9% of time they never will love that child and that's why he kept referring to the kids as her kids when it suited him and then back to being his kids when he wanted her back to abuse and control her some more.
I can't believe the court gave that man partial custody after trying to kill his wife. Another case of the justice system failing women miserably. Yes men can be victims too but lord women make up the huge bulk of the victims that end up getting offed by their deranged partners.
Can you imagine the trauma her kids will forever endure from the abuse they suffered from the father and also watching their grandparents and mother getting shot up.