Too bad this dad didn’t put a lot more work into his marriage, including choice of a partner, and into the family’s values, prayer life and religious education, his daughter’s from early childhood, preceded by his own, and his wife’s, as partners in Christ. He said himself he was more concerned about being the cool dad.
IMO, no-fault divorce has wrought great harm.
Boy, how Christ like are you, you judgmental sanctimonious prig. You dare mention Christ? Your attitude is exactly what turns people away from religion. Must be nice to be such a perfect specimen of humanity.
Yep, I know far too many divorcing men who exploit their ex’s weakness, sickness, whatever, to get sole custody as a way to “win”.
Then they think they can somehow become a super-parent with the mom no longer needed.
Better to marry well to start, as you suggest, but the fever that sometimes grips both men and women in divorce leaves it all the worse for the kids.
No mention through all of this of trying to get the daughter and mother reconnected.
Oh, and never a good idea for a dad to make a “little princess” of his daughter.
Those little girls are the ones who grow up to be intolerable.