The amount of dads I know who consider watching their own kids to be “babysitting” and not parenting is WILD.  3:02

So ironic that the detective that gives the impassioned speech about his disabled son is Michael Peña, a scientologist. His pretend religion believes that child and all children with disabilities are ‘degraded persons’.

That was all I could see during his scenes.

Also he and his wife hid money for Danny Masterson so his SA victims couldn’t win it in court. Awful people.

To answer your question: yes; they would have taken Milo from her. Despite her being unconscious, his original kidnapping was a crime and she cannot be allowed to "benefit" from it.

And, to make matters worse, they would have given him to his only living relative, his grandmother.

As someone with mobility issues/ has been a wheelchair user it so SO refreshing to see a disabled character/storyline show that wheelchairs can be so freeing. It makes me so happy. Because being in a wheelchair was what let me get through college. Everyone was so worried when I got in the chair but I never would have gotten through college without it.

Oh you sweet soul, the state would 1000% take the child away .

13:12 it was also during this scene that marissa asked peter to come up with his favorite thing about milo. and this man had the nerve to say that his favorite thing was when milo would wake up screaming from a nightmare and peter was the only one to calm him down. it's when milo needed him the most. and if you remember, as marissa is listening to him say this, you can tell when it clicked in her mind what kind of man she married. he was an absolute monster.

Marissa didn't just cover for Peter to keep Milo, she also did it because she was rightfully terrified of him. I was screaming at the screen not for Marissa to tell the truth, but for the cop to separate her from Peter. There's no world in which an abused woman will speak up while her abuser has his arm around her shoulder. That scene was so well-acted and was one of the few times I was mad at the cop. He could clearly tell she was terrified of Peter and yet only questioned them together.

I would actually say that Peter does have Munchausn by proxy, it's just that he's more subtle about it than the stereotype of a parent poisoning their kid's soup.
It's not JUST that he lied about Brian's accident. He also pushes Brian to walk instead of using his wheelchair, which causes him serious pain, making him dependent on painkillers, and literally making him sick since they cause him side effects like nausea. He also tells Brian he's not a candidate for a surgery that might help him, when the doctor said he actually was!
Also, with his sister, he very deliberately tears down her self-esteem. Even without the revealation at the end, the premise of Brain's accident was that when they were kids Leah was chasing Peter through the house and he tripped because he was running, hitting his head on a table, and leaving him with nerve damage. That's an unfortunate accident! It's the kind of thing that you can understand someone carrying guilt about it, but you'd advise them to go to therapy to deal with because it really wasn't their fault since they were just kids playing! From the start Peter reinforces that guilt though. That's not normal.
But more than not normal, he's intentionally reinforcing the toxic shame she carries, which has led her to addiction, to relapse with her addiction, to all kinds of self-destructive behaviors.
He's intentionally making his brother sick by discouraging things that might make him less sick like using his wheelchair or pursuing new treatments, and encouraging things that make him more sick like taking pain pills, and he's doing all he can to keep his sister sick by reinforcing the toxic belief that it's her fault their brother became disabled, which damages her sense of self-worth and leads her to back to maladaptive coping mechanisms like drugs.
He's intentionally keeping his siblings sick so that he can get the sympathy of having a disabled brother who depends on him because he's unwell and a disaster sister who also depends on him because she's an addict who can't get her life together, but also gets the praise for being the hero brother who takes care of both of them anyway.
That sounds like Munchausn by proxy to me!

There are several people in this story who are the embodiment of liking the idea of having children but not the reality of having children. More people need to have a conversation with themselves and their partners before they bring new life into this world and really ask themselves, do I want children, why, would I be ok if I didn't have them and is this the right person to raise a child with and tie myself to this person for the rest of my life. I just don't think enough people have these conversations with themselves or their partners, they just get pregnant and try to figure it out later instead of planning out their children and honestly there are lot of ways you can mess up a child.

The craziest part about Marissa and Peter's relationship to me was after giving birth to a baby, getting in a car accident, and ending up in a coma , Marissa still had to stay up all night with the baby until they slept through the night.... It truly blows my mind

They 1000000% would take the child away. A crime was committed and the people the child views as their parents won’t matter in the eyes of the law. There have been cases where babies were kidnapped (which is what happened here- the baby was kidnapped) and they grew up thinking their kidnapper is their mother and they take the child away regardless of how long it’s been and give them to their biological family. Every time.

Weaponized incompetence is all too real, that and learned helplessness.

They would ABSOLUTELY take milo away from the family that essentially kidnapped him as an infant. They would immediately put him in foster care and his "parents" would go to prison.

The husband in this is also an awful husband in White Lotus so i already hated him. Then he spoke.

Nah bro, she would DEFINITELY lose custody of Milo. They aren’t going to let the wife of KIDNAPPER and literal MURDERER of the child’s mother have her child to raise. There would have to be suspicion as well that she herself was aware and consented to her husband’s actions, or had gained knowledge of them at some point. She would be barred from all contact with Milo by her association as the wife of the man who destroyed that child’s family and prevented any reunion with his true mother.

The shitty thing about having a child with a pos human is you don't get to decide to remove them. Even if they divorce, they would likely share custody. The logic is often " at least if I'm around when it's happening I can correct the behavior when I see it". Otherwise the kid is going to spend half their time alone with the psycho. There really isn't a good solution. In my case, I get my kids back from my ex, and have to spend the first few days dealing with them disrespecting me, calling me a whore, telling me I ruined their lives because I broke a vow etc. It's been 7 years since I left him, I don't see it changing. I live by the mantra ' they will only be kids for a short time, and once they are adults they will realize how fucked up that is".

Oh, dude, there are ABSOLUTELY men like Richie. My own father is VERY MUCH like Richie.
Also, unfortunately, it can be extremely difficult to get out of an abusive relationship, especially if you have a child with the abuser. Plus, unless it’s something so bad to warrant the courts to allow absolutely zero contact with the abuser (with enough evidence), the child(ren) might still have to be around the abuser regardless. For someone who is abusive in a non-physical way, that kid would’ve absolutely have to be around Richie still.

(Note: I have no real evidence of the latter other than my own experience after my mom divorced my dad. Since he’s not physically abusive, he still gets my siblings on the weekends until they’re old enough to choose otherwise)

I absolutely loved how Marissa never blamed Jenny like not even for a second and how their friendship was so strong even tho they didn't knew each other for that long. I also love how the detective let Marissa slide, but his decision makes more sense if you watch the show. Also about the detective I love how great of a father he is, is amazing how they show 3 horrible dads and then there's the detective being top tier, shows that not all fathers will always suck, and they also show how not all mothers will be a ride or die for their kids with Josie/Carrie's mom.

My favourite scene in the entire show was Jenny telling Richie she wanted a divorce

Lots of pop culture misuses the term, but what Peter has is an actual Hero Complex. He creates the situations where other people are imperiled or rendered helpless deliberately so that he can then come in and play the hero.