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<blockquote data-quote="JJJ" data-source="post: 368807" data-attributes="member: 1169"><p>Children DO NOT decide where they live. She lives where the court order says she lives. And, as a minor, she has no standing to go to court. Dad would have to petition the court for a judge to even look at changing her residential parent. Your wife will not be doing her any favors if she lets her get away with dangerous behavior because she is scared to lose her role as primary parent. Your SD has less then 4 short years to get helped. </p><p></p><p>While your wife might be great at her job, she should not be trying to diagnosis or rule out diagnosis for her own child. While I agree with her that it doesn't sound like Conduct Disorder (which is a big, heavy diagnosis), there is clearly something wrong. Children without mental illness do not cut themselves. That is/was a HUGE red flag and it sounds like your wife missed it. </p><p></p><p>I would push your wife as gently but firmly as possible to have a complete neuropsychologist evaluation done. Maybe she will understand the argument, that clearly something is wrong and that a full evaluation will help everyone with knowing what direction to go with helping her. This could be depression that is showing as anger, it could be drug use, it could be a response to sexual abuse that you don't know about...it could be so many things that only a full evaluation could get to the bottom of this.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JJJ, post: 368807, member: 1169"] Children DO NOT decide where they live. She lives where the court order says she lives. And, as a minor, she has no standing to go to court. Dad would have to petition the court for a judge to even look at changing her residential parent. Your wife will not be doing her any favors if she lets her get away with dangerous behavior because she is scared to lose her role as primary parent. Your SD has less then 4 short years to get helped. While your wife might be great at her job, she should not be trying to diagnosis or rule out diagnosis for her own child. While I agree with her that it doesn't sound like Conduct Disorder (which is a big, heavy diagnosis), there is clearly something wrong. Children without mental illness do not cut themselves. That is/was a HUGE red flag and it sounds like your wife missed it. I would push your wife as gently but firmly as possible to have a complete neuropsychologist evaluation done. Maybe she will understand the argument, that clearly something is wrong and that a full evaluation will help everyone with knowing what direction to go with helping her. This could be depression that is showing as anger, it could be drug use, it could be a response to sexual abuse that you don't know about...it could be so many things that only a full evaluation could get to the bottom of this. [/QUOTE]
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