You may have somethng I think the step-dad maybe helping the woman hate her oldest daughter. The man probably beat the older girl because she was not his and pampered the girl that is his. The mom is obvisously manipulated by this man. I lived this with my mom and her husband only difference after he ran me and my brother from her second marriage off he started in on his own kids.
where did you come up with that, the youngest daughter is not his, and I dout he is beating a 40 year old woman.
lol......................you sure you where not watching a Life Time movie instead of the Dr. Phil show?