I’ve known wise, godly, brilliant men who have done all they could to instill positive ideas in their daughters. However, at “adulthood,” the daughters exercised their “independence” under the law, and the fathers could only first warn and ultimately sever ties as their daughters descended into degeneracy. The law continues to encroach on a father’s ability to protect his children, ever worse and insidious, to the point the children don’t even require “adulthood” to assert their independence.