The cartoon is doing it wrong.
The father is doing drugs, cheating on his wife and then screaming at her about leading a moral life. As he reads the newspaper on a story about a 12 year old who was rapped, he comments that it was somehow her fault.
The child should be working 16 hour days in a mine somewhere.
When the child collapses from the long and hard hours of labor, the father issues an allowance cut to the kid and demand he works harder. He labels the child as lazy and has an over inflated sense of entitlement.
The child's allowance is then further cut, to support the father's "war" with the jerk across the street (he needed to buy binoculars to keep an eye on that prick,
). The child is also sent in, by the father, to destroy and wreck the jerk's property. When the child comes back from invading the jerk's property, he is injured. The father calls the child a traitor and refuses to treat him.
The mother tries to look after her child. Each attempt to protect the child, the father lashes out and inflicts more harm. Like expecting the child pays the father an allowance. The father also labels the mother a socialist. He tries to have her arrested by calling the cops and demanding she be removed from his house, because she is an illegal immigrant. She provides proof and the cops leave her alone. But, the father still insists she is here illegally.
The father than asks every local merchant to label the wife a dead beat when it comes to paying her bills on time. The mother states the father refuses to give her any money. The father refutes by stating she is spending way too much money on her cancer treatment (too much as in,.. all of it) and she needs to stop wasting electricity and water on showering and keeping warm.
The father then finds someone to spread further rumors about how "bad" his wife is. This person is paid money based on how badly he makes the wife look.
In about a year, the father will start walking around with a bimbo claiming she is his new wife. She is hot. But, she is a total retard and will do whatever the father saves.
God save the child.