Seriously, though, this should be raising up some HUGE red flags across the country. I'm just afraid they'll see it as 'bad' parents rather than desperate parents who ran out of resources and couldn't get the services their child(ren) and family needed.
If we hadn't been able to get Kanga into Residential Treatment Center (RTC), we'd be heading to Nebraska. Not a doubt in my mind. The state of mental health in this country is appalling. There is very little help for the parents of violent, mentally ill youth.