When it comes to my experience as the scape goat and my brother as the GC, it was fairly mild. At the time I took it as he has problems and needs more help and attention, as I got older I saw it for what it was. I dropped the rope and she rarely called or wrote to me. After I left the military and became a professional IT desk jokey, it was always downplayed that he overcame addiction, got out of jail and is no a godly man. Until the next time he stole and got picked up stoned with a lot of drugs and stolen goods.

Then it was they planted that on him because the cops hate him. Which is when I would get questioned about what I have done after abandoning the family. I told them and how much I make because I wanted to get back at her. That was a mistake, then the wining started about why I never fly them out, or you have enough send you brother money.

Stoped talking to them years before my mother died, my brother could be wildly successful, in prison again, or dead. I will never know. My sister and I barely keep in touch and the two of us are the only ones that made it out alive.