He ordered his low IQ and rebellious daughter Rosemary to be lobotomized and live the rest of her life as a houseplant, so her sexual acting out would never embarrass him
His wife Rose suffered the indignities of his cruelty like a good Irish Catholic wife, but the children were marked and so are their children. That is the real “curse” of the “golden” Kennedys. That their careless selfish amorality occasionally, randomly, destroys others who come in contact with them
Did you read the book, the Garden of Beasts? It describes the prewar politicians all being a bunch of wealthy play boys, much like the Kennedys. I think that it was a pervasive mind-set among the political class and the Ivy League elite.
My husband’s brother in law’s father worked for the state dept at that time (along with John Kerry’s father) and I can tell you that the Kennedys were just typical of the political class. They were just more successful and attracted more successful, more famous women. But the pervasive mind-set was that women were theirs for the taking, the using and the abusing.