You are absolutely correct. It IS a big deal.
So too, for both girls and boys is the presence of the father figure.
It sounds like with Bundy, the father was long gone, but that, in my estimation, is not too terribly different from an abusive father, who may be present.
Yet another sad piece of evidence supporting the paramount importance of the stable, traditional nuclear family.
Yes, fathers are critically important too. To see just how total, complete and horrible a number an absent father can do on a kid, look no further than the Oval Office. But Obama is like Bundy. He can’t acknowledge the rage he feels toward both parents for abandoning him, so his fury surfaces in indirect ways. To our detriment.
OTOH. . .why did we have 'Ted'; or have 'Obama'; and a gazillion like them; and have the goodness of a 'Dave Peltzer' (A boy called IT; A man named Dave and others)?
The intervention here; of course; is critical. (Obama had Frank Marshall Davis/confessed-but-proud/ sexual abuser and confirmed communist.)
Don't know. . .is there a 'viral' component to 'narcissism'? Never mind. . .just 'waxing rhetorical'; but not dissimilar by MO's and threat so contained.