the girl was furious at dorothea from the start. she had lost first her mentally ill, alcoholic mother, and then she had been for a time her father's only love. manard, instead of providing reassurance to his daughter when he married, he immediately turned her over to dorothea and resumed his own pattern of taking long, long trips into the desert to paint. dorothea was flying high with her studio practice and did not want to be stuck at home while manard and his friend's socialized in the restaurant. sot she had her own trouble with this dependent. for whatever reason, she was unable to mother this unhappy rl and they had a terribly terribly angry and violent elationship. then two sons were born. i'm sorry. that comes later but you can watch it now. as with constance, manard turned over the two boys entirely to dorothea and took no responsibility for them. by 1932 when the marriage was beginning to erode and the boys were 7 and 4, dorothea and manard made the first of many decisions to place their children in foster care. her divorc