I just read several posts about bennyboy's dad. Looks like daddy was a mean alcoholic and mom didn't defend herself or her kids from him.
Daddy beat the crud out of his first wife and deserted that family.
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Bennyboy/15
Yeah, yeah, a standard primitive tale.
I have doubt there's been mean dads in the world, but I
really doubt that a primitive ever had one.
They're always using imaginary people, imaginary events, to explain their own flaws.
I give you as the prime example, Dennis the Menace.
"Bad dad" stories are almost their own literary category, on Skins's island.