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<blockquote data-quote="witzend" data-source="post: 219649" data-attributes="member: 99"><p>I know that this is way too simplistic, so be forewarned that I am asking because I don't understand how it would work out, rather than that I am absolutely suggesting that one of us try this. Although, I'm sure that many of us have, and it has gotten to the point in my suggestion that I will leave off at...</p><p></p><p>Example:</p><p></p><p><span style="color: Blue">K takes her son home, he locks himself in the bedroom, threatens her with a hammer, she fears for her safety, and somehow she manages to get him into an ER for psychiatric admit after having given his psychiatrist a head's up that she is doing so. They make her wait 8 hours, he's bored and acts like a typical teen and tells them "Well, I really wasn't going to kill her with it, and I have no thoughts of harming her or me or anyone else." They tell K to take him home. K tells them to shove it. They threaten to call the police on her, and she walks out the door without difficult child.</span></p><p><span style="color: Blue"></span></p><p><span style="color: Blue"></span><span style="color: Black">Seriously, what are they going to do? They're going to put him in foster care if there's nothing for him in the hospital, and <em>maybe</em> even charge K with abandonment, which she will fight with all of her psychiatrist records and parent reports, and difficult child will get a placement somewhere because she says "he is not coming home until someone can prove to me that I should feel safe. I</span>f that means there's something wrong with me that makes me unable to clearly see how stable he is, then so be it. Give me therapy and a class to prepare for his eventual return."</p><p></p><p>Or am I totally oversimplifying this? In hindsight, this is what we should have done with M before he assaulted his dad and had him at the ER for an admit.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="witzend, post: 219649, member: 99"] I know that this is way too simplistic, so be forewarned that I am asking because I don't understand how it would work out, rather than that I am absolutely suggesting that one of us try this. Although, I'm sure that many of us have, and it has gotten to the point in my suggestion that I will leave off at... Example: [COLOR=Blue]K takes her son home, he locks himself in the bedroom, threatens her with a hammer, she fears for her safety, and somehow she manages to get him into an ER for psychiatric admit after having given his psychiatrist a head's up that she is doing so. They make her wait 8 hours, he's bored and acts like a typical teen and tells them "Well, I really wasn't going to kill her with it, and I have no thoughts of harming her or me or anyone else." They tell K to take him home. K tells them to shove it. They threaten to call the police on her, and she walks out the door without difficult child. [/COLOR][COLOR=Black]Seriously, what are they going to do? They're going to put him in foster care if there's nothing for him in the hospital, and [I]maybe[/I] even charge K with abandonment, which she will fight with all of her psychiatrist records and parent reports, and difficult child will get a placement somewhere because she says "he is not coming home until someone can prove to me that I should feel safe. I[/COLOR]f that means there's something wrong with me that makes me unable to clearly see how stable he is, then so be it. Give me therapy and a class to prepare for his eventual return." Or am I totally oversimplifying this? In hindsight, this is what we should have done with M before he assaulted his dad and had him at the ER for an admit. [/QUOTE]
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