One thing about articles like this,
Is MOM is never the problem!
BS!
She gets the house, moves her boyfriend in, and dad
pays all the bills!
That is how it really works.
Effing Courts!
Mom had had 4 marriages I got drug through three of them.
I managed to escape from my mother and get to a stable home.
Finally as an adult tell her to EFF off!
Don’t assume the guy is always at fault.
Our court systems destroy Fathers.
Fathers have just as much claims to their kids
as mothers do.
Just so you don’t think I’m bitter, been married to the same woman for 47 years, have a kid, and lots of family.
My sense is Hackman came of age in the pre-feminist generation. Not to say that the phenomenon didn't exist in reverse...but I think it happened a lot more in the generation(s) following.