AlvinofDiaspar
Moderator
Ex-Montreal Girl
You're right about the whole family being dysfunctional. Renata has been in the Ford family long enough to get dragged into the dysfunction, and I wouldn't be surprised if she used either booze or a "mother's little helper" to get through her days. I hope her parents can help her, she needs to get away from this toxic family, or her kids will repeat the cycle.
OR you can have a catastrophic failure of the status quo that would make returning to the old patterns of behaviour impossible or exceedingly difficult - outing all the skeletons of the Ford family would be one. Is it ethical? Perhaps not, but it's certainly more ethical than enabling unintended self-destruction through inaction.
AoD