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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 235449" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>Well, you have to try to work around it whether or not the parents are both on board. Often it starts that one isn't, but he comes around. And sometimes marriages break up over it. You still can't do nothing while the child is hurting.</p><p></p><p>And a rehab is at least a place where a child can get help and be off the streets. I didn't do that for my daughter--we didn't even know how deeply she was involved in drugs (as I suspect your family members actually DID get drunk, but you just didn't know it), however she quit when she wanted to quit. Since she was only 19, we were very proud of her. She is doing well. </p><p></p><p>Residential Treatment Center (RTC)'s are not warehousing children, at least not here, and the term is offensive. Many of us here use Residential Treatment Center (RTC)'s when there is nothing left to do for a child. And many have had successes. Those don't make the newspapers, but they happen. When kids are violent and dangerous either to himself or to other people or both,due to mental illness (including substance abuse) and can not live at home because they may harm others, this is far preferable than jail. At least there is hope that the treatment will work.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 235449, member: 1550"] Well, you have to try to work around it whether or not the parents are both on board. Often it starts that one isn't, but he comes around. And sometimes marriages break up over it. You still can't do nothing while the child is hurting. And a rehab is at least a place where a child can get help and be off the streets. I didn't do that for my daughter--we didn't even know how deeply she was involved in drugs (as I suspect your family members actually DID get drunk, but you just didn't know it), however she quit when she wanted to quit. Since she was only 19, we were very proud of her. She is doing well. Residential Treatment Center (RTC)'s are not warehousing children, at least not here, and the term is offensive. Many of us here use Residential Treatment Center (RTC)'s when there is nothing left to do for a child. And many have had successes. Those don't make the newspapers, but they happen. When kids are violent and dangerous either to himself or to other people or both,due to mental illness (including substance abuse) and can not live at home because they may harm others, this is far preferable than jail. At least there is hope that the treatment will work. [/QUOTE]
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