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<blockquote data-quote="MyFriendKita" data-source="post: 528171" data-attributes="member: 4888"><p>It seems like it's much harder for men to accept that their kids have problems, especially when it's their sons. Our son was born with a clubfoot, and husband didn't want anyone to know. To me, it wasn't anything to be ashamed of. When it was becoming obvious our son had some kind of behavioral problem (around age 8), it took a long time for husband to accept it. He kept wanting to believe it was a phase our son would outgrow. He only agreed to look into counseling for our son when the problems were so bad there were no more alternatives. By then, difficult child was 15. As we began to unravel difficult child's issues and get help (in our case, medication, but that's not the answer for everyone), and husband could see that difficult child was improving, he began to accept that there was something wrong with difficult child. But it took a very long time for him to get on board.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MyFriendKita, post: 528171, member: 4888"] It seems like it's much harder for men to accept that their kids have problems, especially when it's their sons. Our son was born with a clubfoot, and husband didn't want anyone to know. To me, it wasn't anything to be ashamed of. When it was becoming obvious our son had some kind of behavioral problem (around age 8), it took a long time for husband to accept it. He kept wanting to believe it was a phase our son would outgrow. He only agreed to look into counseling for our son when the problems were so bad there were no more alternatives. By then, difficult child was 15. As we began to unravel difficult child's issues and get help (in our case, medication, but that's not the answer for everyone), and husband could see that difficult child was improving, he began to accept that there was something wrong with difficult child. But it took a very long time for him to get on board. [/QUOTE]
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