Speculating here- While I agree, when my children were 7/8 and 10/11- they didn’t have access to IG, Twitter, Facebook etc… so it wouldn’t have mattered. I wonder if he even thought about the girls seeing things in the media. Obviously naïve of him to gloss over the face that AE was an SM obsessive but genuinely in the moment of posting, did he really think ‘oh this might show up in my kids news feeds’ because I probably wouldn’t. I suspect he regrets it now. I still think he’s trying to do the right thing as best he can. He probably anticipated it would get messy but I bet he never thought it would come to this.“Thank you for making me smile again”. What a lovely sentiment from a father of two.
Least he can do is try to see them. He left the family home. His girls at their ages are unlikely to be able to distinguish between him living their mother & them particularly with their mother fuelling the fire. And what does he do - move in with his GF & then cite her as the reason he can’t take his daughter to Universal.
If I were his 12 year I’d respond “Do you know where I’d live you to be living Dad? - with me!”
Again, as with many, I feel so much for the daughters in this.