Perhaps the Cheneys did this a long time ago. Perhaps millions of parents have also unsuccessfully tried this "solution" with adult children who marched and continue to march to their own (often misguided and detrimental) drummer.
The question is, what's next for the parents if the adult children they love continue on the path they've chosen in life? Cut them out of the will? Exile them to Elba? Make them stand in a corner?
There's no easy answer, in my opinion.
The parents are relegated to handling the situation with as much external grace as they can muster, especially if they're in the public eye virtually every minute of their lives.
The Cheneys are doing just that, in my opinion. It's the media tabloidists who are exploiting this situation......and they are the ones that are trash.
Leni
I guess there would a point that would happen (cutting off all contact), right? If a brother was molesting his sister...If a child committed mass murder, etc.
Any parents that are public figures with any true moral convictions would state unequivocally that they believed their daughter's lifestyle and choice to bring a child into the world in this manner was wrong.