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It hurts not having a supportive, loving family. You didn't deserve to be treated as a scapegoat, and you still don't deserve to be treated that way. I don't know how to change your family since I don't even know them, and it doesn't sound like they are interested much in change. All you can change is you and your reactions to them, and how much you even interact with them at all. I'm sorry that they are like that. If you want to PM me, maybe you could tell me more about what they tried to blame you for, and how you reacted to it. I agree with the other responses. People make someone a scapegoat when they don't want to take responsibility for their own mistakes. In a family it can be a way of denying the family dysfunction by claiming that all the problems pertain to one family member. I have found that that is almost never true, however. You might be interested in reading about Family Systems theory.