Mary J. Claxton

Convinced by Manipulation: a Family's Quest to See Their Grandchild Mary J. Claxton

As with most other parents who love their children,we did everything we could to provide a good loving home for them. We nourishedthem and taught them right from wrong. We took them to church and told them allabout good moral behavior and treating others the way they would like to betreated. We loved them unconditionally. There were times when we laughed andtimes when we cried. We had fun together and vacationed together; we were afamily. As our children grew, we grew in many ways too and together on thisjourney of life we learned about each other. We were not wealthy, we wereaverage and ordinary, but we did whatever we could. Our daughters are precious to us and like mostparents do, we tried to protect them and caution them against the evils thatare present all around us. We had challenges like everyone does, that is partof life, but there was never a challenge so great as the one that was about tochange our lives. After our youngest daughter's recent divorce fromher husband of three years, we noticed that her personality was beginning tochange. What once was a close relationship with us suddenly seemed strange anddifferent. After having been together for a family celebration we were notprepared for the news that we would receive just two days later. CONVINCED BYMANIPULATION takes you on a course turned upside down by the evils ofdeception.