From Julian Lennon's page on Facebook

[Ken Burch]

40. I apologize for the assumption that you were male.

(and have now deleted the third paragraph of the post you responded to).

Still, John COULD have had a relationship with Julian if he'd wished to. He wasn't at Yoko's mercy.

Yes, stepparents who discourage continuing relationships between their spouses and their spouses kids are wrong...but part of the responsibility there is that the parent has to make the stand and keep that relationship going anyway.

Yoko wasn't a saint...but it's too easy to put everything that was screwed up in John's relationship with his ex-wife and with his oldest son on her.

I think it also bears remembering that Yoko, at the time this was happening, was barred by her ex-husband, Tony Cox, from having ANY contact with her daughter Kyoko(she didn't see Kyoko again for another twenty years, IIRC)and that her actions were probably conditioned by her pain at not getting to see her own child(perhaps at some level she felt"why should he see HIS kid if I can't see mine"?) and I'll always wonder if Yoko might have behaved differently about John's relationship with Julian if her situation with HER daughter had been allowed to be different.