The binding ritual is what is fitting in this situation. If you are incapable of doing a binding, then you are incapable of safely or effectively doing a curse either as that is much more extreme and difficult.
Ask the Gods for help, and ask the Gods to ensure that the daughter is perfectly safe and not effected in any kind of bad way.
In my own experience with similar situations at various times, the best possible result which is what the Gods would help to accomplish or what would be accomplished by bindings or rituals to try to solve the problem, is that the conflict simply goes away. The guy gets the stick out of his ass to stop having such a horrible attitude, his wife also starts having a better attitude when she is not having so much shitty energy coming from him anymore, and both of them become much better neighbors and better parents to the daughter. Is this not obviously the greatest possible outcome? A binding is part of this to prevent him from doing any bad things.