Wait, I’m confused: are the father’s children viewed as the “warden” or the “guards” in this analogy?
Either way, it seems like a weirdly antagonistic attitude to take towards one’s own children.
The wife is the “warden” and the children are “prison guards”.
I assumed if the father liked his wife and kids he wouldn’t have gotten a divorce and would make more of an effort to maintain a relationship with his children.
Look, I love my wife and kids and all. But when I’m on the highway driving them all to my in-laws house with the kids fighting and screaming in the back, it often takes a force of will to not drive the car into the next stationary object.
It seems self-evident that they’re not referring to dads who tried to get 50-50 (or more) but didn’t succeed.