Anon wrote:
No, I'm not a lawyer, but was that a loophole since they weren't in the U.S.? Sounds like both your husband and Teen Help used that to get your boys admitted.
Anon,
What I learned from my experience is that your court ordered divorce decree supercedes any program's policies. That's important for parents in similar situations to know.
For instance, I could show up unannounced on any of my regularly scheduled weekends for my visitation and take my son without their permission. My ex placed our son 1,500 miles away because I had previously demonstrated, with our older son and the younger son's first placement, that indeed I would exercise my rights.
There is no rational explanation for what Carey's ex did. No legal loopholes. Like so many, I would imagine that they were hoping she would just go along, or not have the financial resource to accomplish what she in fact did. They rolled the dice...and lost.
As for the policies. My experience is with a non-WWASP facility in Ga. many, many times they violated their stated policies. On one ocassion when I challenged them and posted my compaint on a message board, they revised the policy and sent a copy to all parents. The "Parent Manual" was useless, and rarely reflected what was actually occuring.
For instance, there was NO mention of the "restriction diet", or that a teen could be on restriction for months on end for minor infractions.
I could cite other violations but won't. Suffice it to say, that what you are told is not necessarily the truth, and the parent manual is designed to impress parents.
Deborah
