For a minute, flex your fantasy muscle and imagine yourself in this particular scenario:
You are a child. You have 4 siblings, your dad is a rich lawyer and your mom doesn't have to work. Your parents have been together for decades, your family has built up a good relationship with the church congregation, and finally, your dad not only has an inheritance from his oil millionaire grandfather and a cushy job, but he's an incredibly successful Internet personality raking in tens of thousands dollars per show. It's a kind of life that the vast majority of the world's population could merely dream of.
So, it would be safe to say that things are going pretty dang well.
Now that you've done it, imagine your dad starting to go through some kind of midlife crisis - he starts drinking more, his sense of humor changes, he and your mom go to some weird sex hotels and his relationship with the fans gets more personal and uncomfortable. But, while perhaps a bit worrying, that doesn't seem all that bad - just a prim middle-aged man getting a bit loose now that the major life goals are successfully achieved and he can have some non-illegal fun, right?
Well, he keeps drinking more. He gradually keeps moving away from legal overviews to unfunny stand-up comedy. He advertises weird sex toys on stream, keeps suggestively licking bottles and posts a photo of one lodged inbetween his asscheeks. The legal case that he helped on has been lost, and the previously massive audience keeps dissipating and getting skewed towards a small circle of devoted weirdos. And keep in mind that there's a dedicated online community keeping an almost encyclopedic catalogue of his every screwup. Sounds pretty bad, but it's not something you can't come back from and pull up. If your dad stops drinking, apologizes to people and continues commenting on legal procedures, everything will be fine. Not as good as it used to be, but fine.
Well, that doesn't happen. He not only keeps drinking, but starts doing hard drugs to the point of visible health deterioration and rambling delusions. His audience and income are pretty much gone. He drives while drunk, endangering your life. He gets catfished by a middle-aged man. He gets wasted and verbally humiliates a suicidal person who considered your father a friend. He gets involved with a swinger couple, and now a woman who's not your mom lives in your house and sleeps with your dad. Your parents are now so uninvolved in your life that one of the swingers now has to feed you canned pasta. He antagonizes some old weirdo and loses tens of thousands of dollars on the lawsuit. He jokes about you getting molested. He gets high and goes on hour-long incoherent rants.
And, finally, he, your mom and your dad's sidepiece get apprehended by the police and they all go to jail. Your life is turned completely upside down, you have to move out and live with your relatives, and from now on, you'll only see your parents from behind bars for a currently indeterminate period of time, but you know that it would last multiple years.
...Now that you have imagined this outlandish scenario, return back to reality and try to come up with an answer to one question:
"If you were that child, just how psychologically traumatizing would that situation be for you?"
