There is such a sad twist to all of this ....When my MIL became a JW my husbands father opposed her very strongly . It got to the point of abuse . When she finally had grounds to divorce him she did ...at the time the three children in the family were still young . My husband was thirteen at the time and had a choice of who to live with , since he chose his mother, his father cut him off and wouldn't speak to him . Now he is facing that fate w/his mother .