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When do you feel a child needs to leave the home? When is enough enough?
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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 280436" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>Well, it was a long time ago.</p><p></p><p>Being defiant, stealing, being disrespectful, using drugs...that isn't the same as extreme sexual abuse upon younger kids...and strangling two dogs, throwing one of them, a puppy, off a top bunk to hang by her leash. I don't think anyone here has had a child who was as dangerous as that, however I do see some kids here who sounds like they are heading in that direction yet are still living at home. I do "get" not wanting to break contact with a child you have raised from birth because I've raised four from very early ages. But, God forbid, if one of them had turned out to be this dangerous I would have made them leave and probably never have allowed them to live with us again. I still would have kept in touch. This child I speak of only knew us for three years, and clearly did not think of us as his family. Thankfully, the ones I raised from babyhood and love enough to die for were not dangerous to anybody else. My teen daughter was only a danger to herself (and she straightened out well) and Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) son isn't dangerous to anybody--just as an "iffy" future that we can't predict. </p><p></p><p>And that's about it. Again, hub and I have never looked back with any regret, except that we didn't realize what was going on sooner. The extent of it was not known until he left--which is what I fear is happening with some other kids who are spoken of here. You DON'T know until the child is gone and the other ones feel safe enough to finally talk about what he or she has done. And it takes time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 280436, member: 1550"] Well, it was a long time ago. Being defiant, stealing, being disrespectful, using drugs...that isn't the same as extreme sexual abuse upon younger kids...and strangling two dogs, throwing one of them, a puppy, off a top bunk to hang by her leash. I don't think anyone here has had a child who was as dangerous as that, however I do see some kids here who sounds like they are heading in that direction yet are still living at home. I do "get" not wanting to break contact with a child you have raised from birth because I've raised four from very early ages. But, God forbid, if one of them had turned out to be this dangerous I would have made them leave and probably never have allowed them to live with us again. I still would have kept in touch. This child I speak of only knew us for three years, and clearly did not think of us as his family. Thankfully, the ones I raised from babyhood and love enough to die for were not dangerous to anybody else. My teen daughter was only a danger to herself (and she straightened out well) and Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) son isn't dangerous to anybody--just as an "iffy" future that we can't predict. And that's about it. Again, hub and I have never looked back with any regret, except that we didn't realize what was going on sooner. The extent of it was not known until he left--which is what I fear is happening with some other kids who are spoken of here. You DON'T know until the child is gone and the other ones feel safe enough to finally talk about what he or she has done. And it takes time. [/QUOTE]
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