If I was the Son I'd sue Dad for being a *******...for abrogating his duties and resorting to a
lawsuit.
Most of the young men I grew up with were, at some point in our maturation, lazy, shiftless and involved with nefarious deeds.
That was the about the point when the DADs stepped in and tuned our a$$es up. When you broke the rules there were consequences. Why is that so hard to understand?
As a kid I honestly had no friends (parents divorced or not) who had an absentee father. I have tried to emulate the concept of the velvet hammer I saw as a young man.