In class today, it was obvious that everyone had sympathy for Angelle. But when the question was asked if anybody felt bad for the dad, nobody raised their hand. Whenever I hear about kids being taken away from a parent, I automatically think about Mrs. Doubtfire for some reason. In that movie, Robin Williams plays an irresponsible actor who through divorce loses his right to see his kids, and when he does he has to be accompanied by a court official. In a short story, you don't get a complete tale so we don't know what actually happened, but we can all speculate that he lost all rights to his kids.
I am not taking the dad's side at all by saying that he was right driving under the influence, cheating on his wife, and taking it to the extreme by letting his 12 year old daughter drive an automobile, but you have to feel even the slightest bit of sympathy to a man who can't see his kids. There was no ending but I think a good solution would be to have him not see his kids for a couple of months; just long enough to let the pain set in. Maybe then he would realize how much of his life he is missing without his kids.
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I think your suggestion of punishment for the dad is interesting. I agree that he deserves a grain of sympathy. He may not be a very good dad, but it's obvious he cares about his kids. Maybe if he were given a taste of what life without them would be like, it will inspire him to clean up his act.
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