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Family Matters

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pwhodges:
Knowing a couple (with children) that split when one party came out as gay, I am familiar with such bitter recriminations.

jwhouk:
Let us review, roughly in order of appearance:


* Faye - Typical half-way decent childhood; only major issue may have been dad with a "secret" drinking problem; all out the door after witnessing dad commit suicide.
* Marten - Not as typical; dad was a closeted gay man and mom was a burlesque dominatrix of some repute; divorce proceedings were not, at least by Marten's reports, all that friendly.
* Steve - We know his dad was divorced several times. We don't know anything about his mom. Probably not a lot of happy times with "meet your new mommy" every few months.
* Dora (and Sven) - Parents were early 70's leftovers from the hippie movement. Drug use and day trips meant a lot of self-parenting, and very little supervision.
* Raven - Parents are both "rocket scientists". Considering NASA culture, they probably were the reverse of Dora - never really there, always working late hours on some new project.
* Hannelore - We already know about her parents. Mom is Ruthless Corporate Raider with a tinge of James Bond villian; Dad is The Absent-Minded Professor who, instead of inventing Flubber, creates the world's first AI.
* Penelope - Mom and Dad are apparently very strict Christians (possibly old-school Catholic or Lutheran). She might be the youngest or have some expectations heaped on her - which she railed against.
* Angus - Parents were wealthy enough to send him to prep school, so there's the assumption they might have been like the parents in Risky Business.
* Marigold - Dad's very hard working, building his shoe store out of nothing, but just incredibly crazy over little things - like steampunk.
* Claire - Oh, my, to only guess what kind of parents Clinton and Claire had...
* Emily - Looks like parents are typical salariman and good Japanese (?) wife, but might have similar issues to Raven's.

Kugai:

--- Quote from: jwhouk on 13 Jan 2013, 23:50 ---He with the gay nightclub owning dad and the dominatrix mother?

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[KoshVoice] Yes [/KoshVoice]

Barmymoo:
My parents both became significantly better at parenting once they had got divorced, because they were no longer constantly consumed by their fighting and marital problems. What constitutes an improvement to parenting depends on what the situation was before the change - in Faye's dad's case, he couldn't possibly have been a better parent after his suicide because he was no longer there to parent her. In Marten's parents' case, they might well have been more available and supportive after the divorce, we don't know.

Finvara:
If we look exclusively at family history and not at the current state of the family, the question does change slightly.

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