“Your daughter,” she told me, “has spent five years with zero control over her own life.

Zero.

Every choice made for her, every word she said used against her.

Do not, now, turn her into an evidence-collection tool.

Do not make her relationship with you one more place where she has to perform and produce for an adult’s purposes.

The lawyers can build the case.

Your job is different.

Your job, right now, is simply to be her father.