she grew up with values from both
“By the time I was 5 years old, the bond between them had given way under the weight of incompatibility.”
She says they separated around that time, and divorced a few years later.
Harris writes that her father “remained a part of our lives” and says she and her sister would see him on weekends and summers in Palo Alto, California.
However, she says, “it was really my mother who took charge of our upbringing. She was the one most responsible for shaping us into the women we would become.”
Donald Harris opened up about his early memories with his daughters...
“This early phase of interaction with my children came to an abrupt halt in 1972 when, after a hard-fought custody battle in the family court of Oakland, California, the context of the relationship was placed within arbitrary limits imposed by a court-ordered divorce settlement based on the false assumption by the State of California that fathers cannot handle parenting,” he said.
However, he said
he never gave up “on my love for my children or reneging on my responsibilities as their father.”
The vice president and Democratic presidential candidate referred to her mom's life lessons in her DNC speech.
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she never turned her back on that part of her completely
