Chapter 15 - PATRICIA CALLS IT HERITAGE
Patricia’s protective-order hearing involved Mason only indirectly because I requested she have no unsupervised contact while the investigation continued.
Her attorney asked:
"Did Patricia strike Mason?"
"No."
"Touch him?"
"No."
"Tell Trent to strike him?"
"No evidence."
"Then why restrict her?"
I answered:
"Because she authorized a program assessing my child without my informed consent, encouraged Trent to impose memorable correction, and watched after he fractured Mason’s leg without offering help."
The judge focused on actual legal grounds.
Temporary supervised-contact restriction.
No private training.
No directing third parties to discipline Mason.
No removing him from school, sports, medical care, or residence.
Not a lifetime ban.
Patricia testified.
"Did you believe Legacy Saturdays were harmful?"
"No."
"Why not?"
"I was raised around the same system."
"Did it ever harm Trent?"
She hesitated.
"He broke his wrist playing football."
"Was he made to continue?"
"Yes."
"Did that worsen the injury?"
"I don’t know."
Records later suggested displacement increased during continued play, though no doctor could say exactly when.
Then:
"Why use Dominic’s system?"
Patricia’s answer was almost tender.
"Because those boys became men people could rely on."
There.
Survival as proof.
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No counting those who learned fear.
No measuring what adulthood cost.
