All three of the adults behaved incredibly resprehensibly

Adrien's father, mother and stepmother all seem like very good people with understandable reasons for behaving the way they did towards him when he was a child but I'd blame all three of them for some very big mistakes.

The father- alot is said to defend him in this film. He had his heart broken by his baby mama, he wanted to move back to Ohio, he wanted to marry her and start a family with her but she was the one who didn't, his wife didn't want him to have much to do with Adrien, etc.

Doesn't change the fact that he ran out on his child and deprived him of an important part of his life and left him with matters unresolved to this day. And that he had his heart broken by his ex-girlfriend so it was painful to see their son? Please! Like you're the first person on Earth to have been dumped! I sympathize, I do, yes it's awful to be rejected but you should put ALL OF THAT completely aside when there's a CHILD INVOLVED! Boo- hoo! Get over it!

And letting your wife get between you and your son? How could you? You're too nice, too gentle and too sensitive of a person. You let your girlfriend run your life during and even after the relationship and then you let your wife do the exact same thing and it was your kid that got hurt.

The stepmother- you're infertile, couldn't have any children of your own, resented your husband's love child and even though you were kind to the kid when you were one on one with him, you kept your husband from him. When he' well into adulthood, you make peace with him and tell him that in some was it was a gift that your husband had a child with someone else. Understandable but very self-serving.

I know that it was a bad and unfair situation but no matter WHAT, you shouldn't hurt an innocent child. That's who got hurt- a kid who couldn't be blamed for what his father and mother did.

Even as an adult, you're jealous of him! And are petty enough to not want him over at your house and not answer his phone calls!

The mother- you I'll give a pass because you were the one- out of all of these people- who actually took responsibility for Adrian and raised him singlehandedly. And raised him very well, it seems. He did miss having a father around but it didn't lead to tragedy like it does with many children. He had a nice life, no terrible harm done.

Still, running off by yourself with the kid? Keeping him from his dad? Partially because you had a romantic idea of single motherhood and an all-women family? I understand that you didn't want to marry and settle down with the baby daddy and that WAS your right and it's a good thing you didn't do that because it probably would have lead to a divorce, sooner or later, but keeping the dad out of the kid's life is something completely different.

You and John weren't right for each other, as special as he was. Fine. That's no reason to not try to foster some relationship between him and his kid.