Thanks Woltz. Some interpretations are hugely inaccurate. For one, Kay did not leave the kids with Michael. As you point out Woltz, in the hotel scene Michael very clearly and aggressively tells Kay "Do you expect me to let you take my children from me? Don't you know me? Don't you know that that's an impossibility -- that that could never happen."

In III, Michael's reputation is clearly impugned. Reporters ask "What about Mr. Corleone’s connections with Las Vegas gambling?" "What about his involvements with the underworld?"