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<blockquote data-quote="jbrain" data-source="post: 84846" data-attributes="member: 3450"><p>Hi GG,</p><p>the only reason I feel bad for sending difficult child 1 away is for the money I spent that I somehow suspect may not have been necessary. We sent her to an Residential Treatment Center (RTC) in Utah a week before her 16th birthday and she spent 8 1/2 months there. It was extremely expensive and we had to take out a 20 yr loan to pay for it. She relapsed when she came home and ended up court ordered to an Residential Treatment Center (RTC) in our own state that was much more affordable and probably actually more helpful.</p><p></p><p>In any case I don't feel guilty about it, she was incorrigible and I was hoping to find her help and give our family a break. She has no hostility regarding it--she understands why she had to go and it is something she now brags about to friends--she likes to tell people she was so bad she had to be sent to a "level 3 lockdown facility".</p><p></p><p>I don't know what she would be like if she hadn't gone--at the time I feared for her health and her life. That seems kind of dramatic to me now but who knows? She is doing pretty well now and maybe partly from having learned how to take care of herself when she was away. She seems to have some fond memories of the places she was and is still friends on line with many of the girls.</p><p></p><p>--Jane</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jbrain, post: 84846, member: 3450"] Hi GG, the only reason I feel bad for sending difficult child 1 away is for the money I spent that I somehow suspect may not have been necessary. We sent her to an Residential Treatment Center (RTC) in Utah a week before her 16th birthday and she spent 8 1/2 months there. It was extremely expensive and we had to take out a 20 yr loan to pay for it. She relapsed when she came home and ended up court ordered to an Residential Treatment Center (RTC) in our own state that was much more affordable and probably actually more helpful. In any case I don't feel guilty about it, she was incorrigible and I was hoping to find her help and give our family a break. She has no hostility regarding it--she understands why she had to go and it is something she now brags about to friends--she likes to tell people she was so bad she had to be sent to a "level 3 lockdown facility". I don't know what she would be like if she hadn't gone--at the time I feared for her health and her life. That seems kind of dramatic to me now but who knows? She is doing pretty well now and maybe partly from having learned how to take care of herself when she was away. She seems to have some fond memories of the places she was and is still friends on line with many of the girls. --Jane [/QUOTE]
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