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<blockquote data-quote="Copabanana" data-source="post: 669508" data-attributes="member: 18958"><p>Hi again Mama</p><p></p><p>I read your update and felt sad that your daughter is stopping by now and then.</p><p></p><p>I hope you use the period she is in treatment to think about and talk about with the counselors what should happen if she returns home following treatment and relapses again.</p><p></p><p>I have not had an addicted child. I need to say that upfront. Nor do I have any expertise in the treatment of addiction. The question I have is this: What would be the effect of letting her use your home as she is doing for any protracted period of time, if and when she relapses again? I know we are all hopeful that she will recover this time....but you need to be prepared with a plan.</p><p></p><p>Everybody seems to agree that for this short period, it makes a whole lot of sense. And there seems to be a consensus that a longer period tolerating her behavior would not. </p><p></p><p>What I am saying is this: While she is in treatment, you have an opportunity to think through various contingencies and to plan for them. What will be my response if this happens? Or that? What are my conditions? What will be available alternatives? Etc.</p><p></p><p>If the legal age of emancipation in Canada is 16, there has to be a time when your daughter begins to have to take seriously the costs to her of her behavior and begins to understand that those costs do not involve you.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Copabanana, post: 669508, member: 18958"] Hi again Mama I read your update and felt sad that your daughter is stopping by now and then. I hope you use the period she is in treatment to think about and talk about with the counselors what should happen if she returns home following treatment and relapses again. I have not had an addicted child. I need to say that upfront. Nor do I have any expertise in the treatment of addiction. The question I have is this: What would be the effect of letting her use your home as she is doing for any protracted period of time, if and when she relapses again? I know we are all hopeful that she will recover this time....but you need to be prepared with a plan. Everybody seems to agree that for this short period, it makes a whole lot of sense. And there seems to be a consensus that a longer period tolerating her behavior would not. What I am saying is this: While she is in treatment, you have an opportunity to think through various contingencies and to plan for them. What will be my response if this happens? Or that? What are my conditions? What will be available alternatives? Etc. If the legal age of emancipation in Canada is 16, there has to be a time when your daughter begins to have to take seriously the costs to her of her behavior and begins to understand that those costs do not involve you. [/QUOTE]
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