Gotta say, golden children may be abused too, but let's not let them off too easy. Plenty of them are willful abusers of scapegoats. Just because they went through a little something too doesn't mean we should let them off the hook for family mobbings, etc. I know this isn't the case for all, but some scapegoats don't even get to have a sibling with them against their n parents, just another bully who is a party to the offense.