But yes, my mother shielded us from some of the more unsavory elements of her family as I was growing up.
Remind me some day to tell you the story of the WW2 fighter pilot that became an engineer building planes for Boeing (747 among others), how he was out-sourced to the Pentagon for weapons systems. (Claimed we had most of what we see in Star Trek)
Then he eventually died under suspicious circumstances and the mob seemed to take revenge.
I can write one hell of a book based on mostly reality if I wished to.
Still I wouldn't go within a thousand miles of some people.