The Relationship Between Lincoln and his Son Unlike David
Cocks Q C Who Has never Hugged or Embraced His Son
Refusing To See Him or to let him share his hearth or
home.David Cocks tried to deprive his innocent son fronm the
right to be even born,the right to grow up under his care and
love or to give him time .His son did nothing to hurt him had a
natural innocence as all children do and his father distain and
rejected him without pity as in great men but in lowly
aspect .David Cocks Q C never looked at his young son with
such love ,rather Sir Derek Spencer said "He was furious at
having to pay any monye for his son despite living a very
comfortable and expensive life stye for himself.Sir Derek
Spencer,Solicitor General and David Cocks room mate gave
evidence that he heard Cocks calling the mother "Fish
Face"and "Old Fishface"to Peter Carter (who got his pupillage
with David Cocks through the kindness of a reference by
referal by the mother to her pupil master David Cocks so this
was a terrible betrayal of a kindness from her old University
friend and the father of her child and a humiliation) as he
walked in the room hearing Cocks plotting to bring a wardship
case to stop his son going to Hill House School for a proper
education.He lost the case ofcouse which Sir Nicholas Wilson
(now Supreme Court Judge)a man of great humanity did for
nothing to protect the child against his father,a father who
refused all his life to see his son despite every decent person
urging him to.
Lincoln’s youngest son Tad, has a close relationship with his father. In the White House his father makes time for him and Tad is seen sometimes playing with his Father, war maps or photographs of slaves.
.The film shows Lincoln’s care for his sons and how he did his best to protect them.Although it is documented that Robert and his father did not always get along, they both loved still loved each other dearly and Lincoln was proud of his oldest son.
The father-son relationships serve an important part in humanizing Lincoln the man, showing him struggling with personal grief in having lost Willie as well as attempting to protect Robert.
If Lincoln was able to shepherd the nation through the horrors of the Civil War, it was, in part, because he knew the grief that had visited countless homes across the country.
David Cocks Q C puts his son last in his considerations,he refused to go to his son's play in order(excuse)to see his second wifes parents who had a cold,he refused ever to see him on his birthday or Christmas,when someone said a mean thing he automatically incorporated it in his general disapproval and constant moaning against his son,he didnot know the date of his sons birthday when he took the son to court to stop him going to Hill House school,he had never even met him though the mother asked Sir derek Spencer to beg him to and to help them because he,her pupil master till he threw her out for refusing an abortion and humiliating her because though he was rich she had no money after a year he gave £16.24 p a week to the child (he one of the richest men in England she an orphan and his pupil stating he would pay it on the last day of every year (the court said it was ludacrace)he said he wont have anything to do with the child even when Sir Derek Spencer told him the child was on a life support machine,"I couldnt care less if he dies he is nothing to me I will never see him and noone can make me."
He brags about his conduct but refuses to see his son taking on his best friend grown up children with open access when running off with his best friends wife,his best friend ending up in a mental hospital with grief at the betrayal .
