Elaboration may be warranted, but if you do not have the trust in the parent to provide that elaboration under his own creation, why engage with him at all? To only be willing to speak to him if he relays quotes from someone else is quite unusual, if not anti-social.
If you would rather speak to that someone else who you deem a suitable authority, why not speak to that other person instead? What do you hope to gain from using the parent as a pointless middleman? Especially when you consider that middleman untrustworthy, thus making any citations that may be provided unreliable anyway. A strange endeavour.
Elaboration may be warranted, but if you do not have the trust in the parent to provide that elaboration under his own creation, why engage with him at all? To only be willing to speak to him if he relays quotes from someone else is quite unusual, if not anti-social.
If you would rather speak to that someone else who you deem a suitable authority, why not speak to that other person instead? What do you hope to gain from using the parent as a pointless middleman? Especially when you consider that middleman untrustworthy, thus making any citations that may be provided unreliable anyway. A strange endeavour.