By the way, who, you make "throwing in the towel" seem like such a bad bad thing.
you missed my point:
TIME TAKES IT'S COURSE.
most of the kids dont need help. they need time to grow up.
parents often dont realize that what they thing is "wrong" is in fact very normal.
take for example, homosexuality. Plenty of programs claim to "cure" it. now, are you going to say that homosexuality is a "problem"?
smoking weed: a recent newsweek article stated that 40% of americans smoked weed in their lifetime, 6% of americans still smoke it regularly. of the 40% that ever smoked weed, something 99% percent picked it up in their teen years and dropped it in their early twenties. take that, "addiction".
hard drugs: there something called an inpatient rehab, along with preventive measures such as actually talking to your kids about the difference between hard and soft drugs, and not blanketing all drugs as bad (which is why many kids dont see the difference between coke and weed, and why many get into coke or other bad drugs)
alcoholism: maybe if the parents were not alcoholics, the kids wouldn't be either. and maybe if the parents had the kid drink some wine or beer at dinner every once in a while, it would eliminate the mystique behind the alcohol, and the kids would not find it as amusing once they have the opportunity to drink alot (hello college or high school binge drinkers turned alcoholics)
and to the kids who just throw tantrums and are "angry" all the time...thats kids being kids. it's also parents doing stuff that pisses the kid off. maybe the parents should start thinking about stopping pissing their kid off constantly, and leave them be.
as i said, proper parenting and time is all that is needed for 99.99% of the cases. you make it seem like every kid with problems in part of that .01 percent of kids that actually need to be sent away.
some kids do need to be sent away, but they are rare. anyone know patrick shin or chyna masteller? that's the two in a million cases that actually need to be sent away.