Actually he had two daughters with Jane and adopted Mike. The one daughter died in a day. Beyond the minutia, Maureen was generally a good person from my recollections of her in the 80’s and 90’s. Never caused any controversies and was very supportive of her father. I always got the same impression of Mike. Whether adopted or not is irrelevant. Apparently Jane raised better kids than Nancy.
Patti was always saying stupid stuff during his presidency and Ron went so far as to act like a moron on SNL at the time. For some reason these two idiots became entrenched in liberal Hollywood, thus becoming the doctrinaire mindless leftists you see today. Ron worked for MSNBC for crying out loud bad mouthing all of the ideals his father had.
Since Christine died within 24 hours, she never had the opportunity to be considered a respected or productive member of society. That was my point.