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Surprisingly I do have an answer for the drinking/coming home question. I had a few sessions with a therapist last winter - re our difficult child.... He told me that since we do not drink in our house it was perfectly fine for me to tell her that if she chose to go out drinking that she was not allowed to come home until it was all over. That is what he did with his children. Can you imagine, a psycholigist at Masters level adopted 3 difficult child's with cognitive and multiple other disablities? You'd think he would have known better! I know that sounds terribly harsh of me, but honestly, when you know the outcome so well why would you do that?