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<blockquote data-quote="Copabanana" data-source="post: 733978" data-attributes="member: 18958"><p>How horrible! How I wish you and your wife and all of us did not have to live like this.</p><p></p><p>There will be social workers at the facility that arrange discharge and follow-up.</p><p></p><p>Could you refuse to take him, until there is a plan proposed that protects and meets the needs of all of you? Other parents have.</p><p></p><p>I mean, might you insist he be discharged to a therapeutic halfway house, some sort of protected treatment millieu or therapeutic foster home?</p><p></p><p>He has a documented history now which is serious and ongoing.</p><p></p><p>Could you insist that you are not equipped to keep him safe and that your other kids are not safe, that the social workers work to insure son gets placed where he can be helped? A family attorney could be an option.</p><p></p><p>If wife is still on another page could you go to a professional and work together to get into synch?</p><p></p><p>If you are in the USA he could at 17 go to job corps when he is stabilized. It is a free federal job training program where they live! They take kids with problems. My son went. They were unfazed.</p><p></p><p>I support you to do what ever it takes to protect yourself and family, and ultimately your son. He matters here too. His life is not working for him. For reasons that are unclear. By acting in behalf of the family as a whole, and to protect yourself, you help him, I think.</p><p></p><p>To keep on with this dance, with the same tune, sets him up too.</p><p></p><p>I am sorry. Glad you checked in, and glad for you there is some respite.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Copabanana, post: 733978, member: 18958"] How horrible! How I wish you and your wife and all of us did not have to live like this. There will be social workers at the facility that arrange discharge and follow-up. Could you refuse to take him, until there is a plan proposed that protects and meets the needs of all of you? Other parents have. I mean, might you insist he be discharged to a therapeutic halfway house, some sort of protected treatment millieu or therapeutic foster home? He has a documented history now which is serious and ongoing. Could you insist that you are not equipped to keep him safe and that your other kids are not safe, that the social workers work to insure son gets placed where he can be helped? A family attorney could be an option. If wife is still on another page could you go to a professional and work together to get into synch? If you are in the USA he could at 17 go to job corps when he is stabilized. It is a free federal job training program where they live! They take kids with problems. My son went. They were unfazed. I support you to do what ever it takes to protect yourself and family, and ultimately your son. He matters here too. His life is not working for him. For reasons that are unclear. By acting in behalf of the family as a whole, and to protect yourself, you help him, I think. To keep on with this dance, with the same tune, sets him up too. I am sorry. Glad you checked in, and glad for you there is some respite. [/QUOTE]
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