I appreciate your effort to be careful, but this illustrates how effective psychopathic lying is. When every word is a lie, and nothing inhibits those lies because there is no core, then one can be completely convincing. At the same time, however, such persons are extremely dangerous. Psychopathy is the diagnosis of serial rapists and mass murderers, and the actual deeds of this man would match. Remember that I have seen the objective evidence, and his three children have seen and suffered the most unspeakable things (not to mention reach the brink of death numerous times). This is why Family Courts making a 50- to 175-billion-dollar business out of covering for psychopathic abusers creates a society that no longer functions properly. If you think criminals would have been held accountable somewhere, you do not recognize the power courts can wield over the police, schools, pediatricians, and Child Protective Services. This is also not a gender issue, except psychopathy is much more common in men, and Family Courts are still in medieval times with respect to level of patriarchy.