http://nypost.com/2015/09/13/inside-ethel-kennedys-cruel-neglect-of-her-troubled-kids/?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=NYPTwitter&utm_medium=SocialFlowInside Ethel Kennedy’s cruel neglect of her troubled kids
By Maureen Callahan
September 13, 2015 | 6:00am
Since Robert F. Kennedy’s assassination on June 6, 1968, his widow, Ethel, has been his torchbearer. Unlike her late sister-in-law, Jackie Kennedy Onassis, she never remarried, never sought a path or identity that was hers alone. She held herself up as the martyr, the good Catholic widow left to raise 11 children alone, the empress of Hickory Hill.
She was content to be the other Kennedy widow, the domesticated antidote to the glamorous, globe-trotting Jackie.
Today, Ethel Kennedy is 87, the clan’s de facto matriarch — a dubious position given the neglect shown toward her own children.
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