Thinkoflaura
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golfmom said:It's so hard to say with this family ... they seem to change their names more than some people change their underware.
Please read this article for what I believe is insight into a way of life we have never experienced. http://www.rickross.com/reference/irish_travelers/irish_travelers10.html
I see the Peters/ Abaroas as being a smaller version of the Irish Travelers/ Greenhorns. Just my opinion, of course.
This is about how the Irish Travelers/ Greenhorns lie, change their names, and commit petty crimes..
They were in the national spotlight when one of the young women, Madelyne Gorman Toogood, beat her 4 year old daughter in the rear seat of her car. It was all caught on video and she was in big trouble.
What strikes me is the clannishness, the changing names, the commission of thefts as they see fit, a lack of any stability at all in their family structure.
BTW, this article doesn't say so, but Toogood was not her true last name..