“I’m not making excuses for him, but in all honestly, if he would have tried to take her off the show I guarantee you the courts would have said otherwise if she pursued that avenue.”
I agree with you there would have been gov’t interference. Your statement calls to mind the article on FR yesterday, where Planned Parenthood told a father that his 14 yr. old daughter’s pregnancy emancipated her.
Disciplining my children in the 80’s was easier than than discipling my “surprise” child who is currently 14 yrs old. In the 80’s, I never thought about CPS....