Because if she only had a solid father figure in her early life (step dad showed up a little too late, unfortunately), she is not seeking male validation in high school by fucking a pedophile.
If only it was that simple. If it was, than everybody who had no father would be a pedophile fucker, or BPD nightmare, and that simply isn’t true. And if it was, then we’d know this was the case, “oh shit, this girl doesn’t have a dad, she’s doomed” and we could do something about it.
Tens of thousands of people grow up without a steady father, either because mom didn’t tell the baby daddy, or the dad died, and grandma took over, or whatever. And those kids grow up to be perfectly normal humans.
Chantal was born with a predisposition to mental illness. Than maybe didn’t have the extra care she needed to be normal if that was ever possible. Or maybe she’d never have been normal even if her father had been there from day 1.
All adults who’ve been around have seen people with good childhoods, two parents, enough money and who have become selfish narcs or even murderers. And we’ve seen poor people in foster homes with horrible childhoods become contributing members of society. And, sadly we’ve seen normal kids living in terrible conditions repeat the pattern of abuse and neglect.
It’s a combination of nature vs nurture with nature being the most important part. It’s naive and simplistic to believe it’s as simple as no daddy=a Chantal. Life is far more complicated than that and the way a human brain wired itself is individualistic and less about external factors and more about the way synapses connect.
I don’t think Chantal would ever have been a normal, functioning member of society, even born into a traditional middle class home. If she’d been born before social media she’d have had a series of minimum wage jobs and been on welfare. She’d never have functioned at a higher level, just like her friend James, and a million other denizens of section 8 apartments across North America.