I...wtf, Abby? WTF? He hit her when she was visiting him in prison and you would need to know why?

As for the letters, you know, I might, MIGHT accept that as a parenting strategy from someone otherwise doing a solid parenting job (although the fact that he didn't open them as opposed to just not responding makes me feel like his point was more important than anything she might have been going through), but just...no.