So, your mother basically found another victim I guess.

I too was the family scapegoat and it created a false sense of power. How powerful that a child is responsible for all the problems in the family. I took the burden on my shoulders where it was placed. I could, single handed, ruin a marriage or destroy my sister. On and on. I didn't stop this nonsense until I was 45 years old with the help of a therapist.

The sad treatment here makes me want to cry but I see so many survivors and concentrate on that.