alt Hacker NewsThe Rosemary Kennedy story is tragic.
JFK was great in some ways, but that political dynasty had serious problems even before RFK Jr.
The Wikipedia article paints this as partly driven by the political aspirations of the patriarch. I suspect this is yet another example of we'd be in much better shape if the US didn't have quasi-royalty, nor families aspiring to that.
The only reason JFK was JFK is because his older brother was killed in an aircraft mishap in WWII. Joe Kennedy, Jr. would have gotten the big political push if he'd lived.