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jail. She drove me back to Las Vegas, to a house she

had rented while I was in jail. Not wanting to
trouble me further, she had not mentioned we had
lost the home I lived in before jail, so the shock of

unexpectedly going to a new place was added to
my disorientation.

The family room was filled with boxes containing
my stuff, hastily packed. The first few days were

spent arranging my living quarters.

During that time, I also had to deal with interstate
regulations about a 5-year probation, ordered so

that my teenagers would not run away again (they
had done it twice). They were warned: if they ran
away from their father once more, their mother

and older sister would be arrested again, and
would go to prison… for a very long time.

The idea of putting a parent (usually the mother) in

jail for protecting her children from
abuse/pedophilia was concocted by Richard
Gardner in his book Parental Alienation Syndrome,
a condition never ratified in that form by either

Psychologists or Psychiatrists Associations, yet
successfully marketed to judges and attorneys. I
have yet to hear or read about another case where

a sibling was arrested and jailed for protecting her
younger brothers and sisters.

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