If Lord Dunstable had not been scandalously weak, Lady Dunstable would not have become a terror to her sex.
As for Uncle Charles, he had simply declined all responsibility in the matter.

He had never seen the Dunstables, wouldn't know them from Adam, and had no concern whatever in what happened to their son.

The situation merely excited in him one man's natural amusement at the folly of another.

The boy was more than of age.

Really he and his mother must look after themselves.