Is Hiram McDowell a bad father?
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I completely agree with this!KMSingh wrote: ↑02 Oct 2018, 09:39 Coles does something very strange with McDowell and his relationship to his children. He isn't really present to them yet he bears an overwhelming influence on them that keeps them stunted. Once he experiences his fall from grace he is still not present to them, but his overbearing influence diminishes and allows them to finally grow up. In the end, it's hard to make judgments of good or bad parenting. In my own experience, parenting choices often have both good and bad effects of varying degrees and also vary per child. I look at my siblings and myself (who grew up with the same parents and circumstances) and how differently we each turned out, at least so far. We are each a work in progress, after all.
He tried to be a sufficient father in his own way, but overall he was pretty bad. His advice was sometimes self-serving, and in the end he still cared about his needs more than his children'. I was curious to see how he was gonna patch their relationships, but too bad his life was cut short before he had a chance to.