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<blockquote data-quote="CAmom" data-source="post: 167192" data-attributes="member: 1835"><p>Suz, your post reminded me of something I think I posted a year or so ago. This was about a discussion we had with our son's therapist when he was in the group home and acting like an obnoxious brat at least some of the time. </p><p></p><p>He emphasized that, despite the fact that our son had been using drugs and had been involved in a crime that resulted in placement, and despite the fact that he wasn't buying into a lot of the therapy offered, we should in no way assume that his future was dim based on any of that. </p><p></p><p>He then went on to tell us about a recently-completed ten-year study regarding resilience in children and adolescents in which it was found that "at-risk" kids, as long as they had had no more than four major bouts with adversity in their lives (abuse, trauma, divorce, etc.), still had an extremely good chance of going on to become productive, law-abiding adults, but usually not until their 20's or even early and late 30's, and that the MAJOR factor contributing to this positive outcome was having at least one loving, supporting parent. </p><p></p><p>As we all know here that we have been that and much more to our kids, I think this is a VERY hopeful message. I always try to keep in mind that my son, even at almost 19 years old, is a work in progress.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CAmom, post: 167192, member: 1835"] Suz, your post reminded me of something I think I posted a year or so ago. This was about a discussion we had with our son's therapist when he was in the group home and acting like an obnoxious brat at least some of the time. He emphasized that, despite the fact that our son had been using drugs and had been involved in a crime that resulted in placement, and despite the fact that he wasn't buying into a lot of the therapy offered, we should in no way assume that his future was dim based on any of that. He then went on to tell us about a recently-completed ten-year study regarding resilience in children and adolescents in which it was found that "at-risk" kids, as long as they had had no more than four major bouts with adversity in their lives (abuse, trauma, divorce, etc.), still had an extremely good chance of going on to become productive, law-abiding adults, but usually not until their 20's or even early and late 30's, and that the MAJOR factor contributing to this positive outcome was having at least one loving, supporting parent. As we all know here that we have been that and much more to our kids, I think this is a VERY hopeful message. I always try to keep in mind that my son, even at almost 19 years old, is a work in progress. [/QUOTE]
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