Last time I heard, it's really hard to learn habits from someone you saw once, for a month at Christmas, after you were two. Maybe it'd be more instructive to do some character studies on his grandfather who helped rear him, even though he didn't really approve of the marriage, who learned to live with a wife who out-earned him in a time when that was thought to be emasculating, who reared a biracial child in a segregated society, and who never let the boy be without a decent, hard-working male role-model. Maybe THAT guy deserves some study and some credit.