I've answered on another link. If the fathers thought that they were happily married then what is their idea of a happy marriage? If they had no idea then, ergo, they were neglectful and horrible husbands.
They say they are distraught (they think the marriages were happy?). It doesn't add up, so they are either lying (NORMAL FOR THEM), insanely ignorant or have been caught on the hop as part of a plan for them all to gradually disappear. Any other version is one I will welcome.
I wish more than anything that the general populace would wake up to this.