Greetings to TGY and InDeep..... I take on board all you propose there about Julie... up to a certain point.. I think what she had to lose was status... nothing more, and nothing less, and it seems a whole lot of time and effort went into maintaining a façade about this family..
The short era of the expensive private school. ..( valuable networking) the horses, the home with acreage , the all dancing, all singing, all blond Au sons, the affable coffee dispensing husband , tripping around the area with the boys to promote his 'business' and woo the locals with the terrible fried food outfit, the projection of the dancing school.. what a nerve!.
And Julie has accustomed herself to the concept and the reality that Rick s inclined to sexually interfere with small children, hence his embarrassing slip with two of Julie's 'pupils'.. thereby halting her income stream , the basis of which was the care and responsibility for children in loco parentis.
The Care of Children.. a lucrative career path, no qualifications seem to be acquired by any of this brood, all of whom portray themselves as Children Carers. The money is regular, the perks seem to be quite acceptable, the oversight and supervision seems to be extremely superficial and irregular.
Even after Rick has blotted his copybook somewhat, what with exposing his 'credentials' to the two little girls in Jule's day care shindig, Julie and Josh and Trent have no objection to the next phase of 'income stream' process.. a foster child, and wouldn't you know it, a very beautiful sub teenager , bearing up under terrific strain of leaving home, new school, strange new 'brothers'... Julie posed no objection.
And even then, the advertisement in the private school newsletter, offering this rented home, the leased vehicles, the incomeless family, as a Xmas Break holiday home for lonely international students, shy of a place to stay over the break. .....