I think he did he best job he knew how to do ...seems like he was probably a battered/bruised husband who struggled through life and gave George what he could. Same goes for parents of children who grow up to be porn stars, pimps or careers which are less desirable....u can't control your children (well I suppose u can but I can't imagine it is healthy)..,u have to trust u have instilled enough values in them to make good decisions and support them

These are not bad people- George was not a bad person- but easy money is hard to turn down. George did not want to be poor and he afforded a grand lifestyle

George loved his father and it seemed he did make time to see him and spend time with him- which is more that a lot of kids do.

There are worse sons out there than George. just last week I had a case where this 17 year oldwas beating his 66 year old father for years, and it accumulated in cutting his cheek with a knife.

Extreme I know but there are worse fathers in the world than this guy. Sometimes u can be the best person in the world and your child will fall short of your expectations and even society's expectations. I am sure if any father was to look back with a fine tooth comb he would find faults and relate it to some current event ....at the end of the day it is not going to come to anything

If you want to point the finger, it should be at the mother who left him time and time again, leaving him without the emotional support of a mother which his father then had to give the best he could. She would just waltz back and expect him to love her solely because she is his mother. At least from the film, it's been his father who solely had to bring him up, yet she felt she had the right to disown him, and let's not forget rat him out. This came when he actually needed and wanted his mother attention and love, yet got none. His father, however, was there. It's also a bit showing how he more or less ended up marrying his mother in the case of the unstable Mirtha who George's mother without a doubt is jealous of, and she only wishes she had what she had. The same scene more or less plays out where the mother/Mirtha cries out they don't want to be poor, they want more, and the father/George tries to protect their respective kids. And just like his mother, Mirtha also rats him out to the cops. Talk about social inheritance.