The mothers hands are not exactly clean here either. Urging the girl “to build a relationship” with the father. I doubt, the father discovered drugs and developed his little perversions, all after separating from the mother.
“The mothers hands are not exactly clean here either.”
Possibly, but she did divorce him.
And, the societal pressure to ‘have a relationship’ with the birth father is not to be underestimated.
Oh, let’s not forget that this was published in the San Fransicko paper, so given the ‘community matrix’ - what can one say?