Needing to control their environment, the AD child will quickly target the Mother as the one who has to be broken. This is because the mother is the one who instills discipline on a daily level, and ensures that chores and work is performed to standard. It may also be because, "a mother" was the one who let them down in the past, and they target the mother in a sense of pay-back.
Father's are charmed into believing that this child is innocent of all accusations, and if the father allows any benefit of doubt to creep in, the child will work that against the rest of the family. Quite often the child will exhibit a "Dr. Jekyl, and Mr. Hyde," disassociation between the family and the father in order to control, and if necessary, split-up the family.
