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<blockquote data-quote="Copabanana" data-source="post: 686718" data-attributes="member: 18958"><p><span style="font-size: 22px">I found this article from the New York Times online about what some parents feel compelled to do to get help for their child. While it need not come to this (I sure hope it does not) this article might be useful to read.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>Parents of Mentally Ill Children Trade Custody for Care</strong></span></p><p><strong> By SHAILA K. DEWAN </strong></p><p><strong>Published: February 16, 2003</strong></p><p>For the parents of some severely mentally ill children, it can come to this: pleading with emergency-room psychiatrists who have no good answers. Listening grimly as caseworkers explain their lack of options. Appearing tearfully before family court judges as they take what they regard as a last desperate step in pursuit of medical care.</p><p></p><p>What these mothers and fathers are being urged to do is agonizing: give up custody of their children and turn them over to New York State's child welfare agencies so that they can get the mental health care that they otherwise cannot afford or gain access to.</p><p></p><p>Here is the link. I took out the whole article because it may be copyright infringement.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/16/nyregion/parents-of-mentally-ill-children-trade-custody-for-care.html?pagewanted=all" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/16/nyregion/parents-of-mentally-ill-children-trade-custody-for-care.html?pagewanted=all</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Copabanana, post: 686718, member: 18958"] [SIZE=6]I found this article from the New York Times online about what some parents feel compelled to do to get help for their child. While it need not come to this (I sure hope it does not) this article might be useful to read. [B]Parents of Mentally Ill Children Trade Custody for Care[/B][/SIZE] [B] By SHAILA K. DEWAN Published: February 16, 2003[/B] For the parents of some severely mentally ill children, it can come to this: pleading with emergency-room psychiatrists who have no good answers. Listening grimly as caseworkers explain their lack of options. Appearing tearfully before family court judges as they take what they regard as a last desperate step in pursuit of medical care. What these mothers and fathers are being urged to do is agonizing: give up custody of their children and turn them over to New York State's child welfare agencies so that they can get the mental health care that they otherwise cannot afford or gain access to. Here is the link. I took out the whole article because it may be copyright infringement. [URL]http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/16/nyregion/parents-of-mentally-ill-children-trade-custody-for-care.html?pagewanted=all[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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