Undermining authority does not mean to destroy authority. The lecherous father still commands curfew. Undermined authority is an authority which is more challenging to morally obey. And since authoritative commands are morally obliging, undermined authority is a horrible situation in which authority’s children may more easily sin. Scandal is so very terrible because it tends to tempt the weakest into evil.
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Wood Faileth 
This is the problem I fumblingly failed to outline in the Great Orthosphere Debacle of ’22. Your dad can be a drunk, but he’s still your dad. It is a great and terrible weight, but it’s a weight around his neck, not yours (to a point).
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Absolutely. It’s a horrible horrible situation to find oneself in, that of undermined authority. Look at the devastation in its wake, what all we’ve “invented” to mitigate undermined authority: divorce, feminism, the Reformation, sedevacantism, the Protestant “sola’,” whatever the hell Romantic Christianity is, liberalism, secession, etc etc. A modern Tower of Babel. It’s a horrible horrible thing to have a drunk for a father but all our inventions – by at least implicitly punching authority in the face – just make us more miserable.
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