Bad father? Seriously?
I'm disgusted by all the housewives in this forum moaning that no, Roy shouldn't have left his family, he was such a bad father for abandoning his wife and casting upon her the burden pf paying the bills and so on and so on...
Really people?! It's not like he went on a vacation with his mates to Honolulu, neither did he leave everything behind to live a new life with his mistress! HE MET EXTRATERRESTRIAL BEINGS FOR CRYING OUT LOUD! THIS WAS HIS DREAM, HIS OBSESSION! Get that inside your petty bourgeois minds if you can! This is bigger than anything he had ever lived or wished for so far. Imagine him pondering "well, yeah, I could follow that alien, but what about my family life in Indiana? Yeah, scrap that UFO stuff, I got a predestined middle class life to live!" OF COURSE HE'D GET ON THAT SHIP, ARE YOU KIDDING ME?
Nothing but pity for you people.