I get it now, the girl ran away because the Church told her that her parents were perverts.
Thanks for clearing this up.
I'm going to watch some Olympic Curling now.
I find the loops and turns this thread has taken somewhat curious. This sentence you wrote struck a chord with me..taking me back to just about where the loops and turns of this thread began.
My original question on the whole thing, was how could a lifestyle that parents felt compelled to hide or conceal from their children, be defensible? I asserted that a lifestyle that needs to be hidden from one's children is a lifestyle that calls for a re-examination.
You said that the child ran away when she found out her parents were perverts. I said that a child is fantastice at seeing and hearing things that parents would rather they not hear and see. I said there is usually consequences when the child discovers that Mom and Dad have presented them with a false facade..most often a feeling of betrayal, anger and alienation.
Those that defend and those that oppose marital "swinging" all seem to acknowlege that it is not healthy for the children of that marriage...
This is the only logical reason why parents would want to conceal it from their children....no matter how much they may defend it. In the end...they do not want their children to know.
If these parents engage in the swinging lifestyle, I am sure that a good part of the reason why they have neither ackowleged it or denied it, is that they do not want their two sons to know about it. Fat chance of that. If the sons have been going to school during this difficult time, they have probably heard all about it by now.
Very sad for those boys and that little girl who is probably long dead, by now.