That's the thing in circumstances like this what is the "right" thing to do, keep all the kids together with Bob ( even though he was hated by Michael) or send one child to Oz to the Hutence family ( that was hated by Michael) DNA means nothing in these cases you act in the best interest of the child. I also think the Hutence family may not have protected Tiger from press interests and would have sold stories and photos of her.Im older than a lot of you I think and remember the custody battle for Tiger Lily very well. She went to Bob, primarily so she could stay with her sisters. Had she gone to live in Australia with Michaels family then she would hardly have seen them. Bob then said ‘anybody would have done the same’ as him, but they really wouldn’t have. I remember my own mum saying she thought Bob deserved a medal for taking Tiger Lily on. He actually adopted her didn’t he? Her name is Hutchence-Geldof.
I also don't truly believe that Bob was an absent parent to Tiger, I remember when Bob's father died and the family came here to Ireland for the funeral, there was pictures in the papers of Tiger clinging to Bob as she was so upset at losing her grandad, apparently Bob's dad doted on her, she was the apple of his eye, that doesn't fit with a distant and absent Bob that didn't make that little girl a part of the family. I think the whole separate flat for the kids is overblown too, how many parents have a playroom or treehouse for their kids, this is just the wealthy version of that, a space for the kids to hang out that is their own, you wouldn't accuse Brenda down the road of being a negligent mother because she turfed her kids into the playroom when they got too loud and boisterous.
Now I have to have a wash for partway defending Sir Gob Geldof.