Book Review of
UNLAWFUL FLIGHT
Midwest Book Review
Unlawful
Flight: A Parental Kidnapping is the true-life memoir of father's rights
advocate Glen C. Schulz, whose acrimonious divorce
culminated in a false accusation of sexually abusing his two children. Stripped
of his visitation rights without so much as a hearing, and desperate to be with
his children despite a legal system heavily biased against him, he fled with
both children to Houston, Texas.
On the run from the FBI and the police, he and his children assumed false identities and received help from friends, family, and teachers, who hid the children when Glen was arrested and when their mother tried to steal them back. Eventually, after multiple arrests, Glen succeeded in denying overwhelming odds and earning full custody of his children.
A
heart-wrenching story of family strife, yet also of love and ultimately of
reconciliation. A final afterword from Glen's daughter
rounds out the compelling tale: "There has never been a day in my whole life
when I regretted what my father has done... I did
eventually forge a relationship with my mother; I got to know her for eight
years before her untimely death. In the end there were no harsh words spoken,
just a family that had finally come full circle."
A
powerful testimony of one man's dedication to his children, and the trying
family times that tested and tempered his faith in God.