I didn't see this TV series from episode one, having found it by accident after season one, so these early traumas in "Little House on the Prairie" was a surprise.
Were you expecting "The A-Team," an action wartime show or "The X-Files"? Keep watching...
I might yet go back to the early days of this TV series, if i can find it, that is. Was this your kind of TV show, or was it "too sweet"?;)