A number of programs offer this kind of return guarantee.
One of them that offered this return guarantee, the kid had returned home and in violation of his agreement with his mom for terms of living at home, he had had a beer and smoked some pot.
When she started talking about sending him back, he got her gun off the top of the refrigerator (why she had one there I have no idea) and killed himself with it.
Wasn't that mom the one that even with her son *dead* was praising the Program, still, for having "saved" him. Echoes of Mai Lai. "We had to destroy the village in order to save it."
Is that screwed up or what?
Gotta love those "return the kid to the program" guarantees.
If your kid annoys you that much, just save your time and money. Your local pawn shop will sell you a pistol for about $200 and you can buy ammo at any local gun range or sporting goods store.
If your kid that annoys you that much, I guess it's the gift that keeps on giving.
Yup, I guess if your son is afraid enough of going back that he'd rather die it just might motivate most kids to toe the line.
No damned wonder your kid is obeying you as if you had a loaded gun to his head. In effect, you do.
But in five to fifteen years when he's paying his own rent and and the cult-implanted false personality covering up his real one wears off and the PTSD kicks in, don't expect a lot of contact with him.
But if you were that fed up with him in the first place that you didn't mind throwing away your entire adult relationship with him when he's grown, if someone's *that* fed up with their kid, why not just sign him over to foster care and save the money? Hell, it's cheaper than the pawn shop pistol option.
Ain't modern convenience great? Everything's disposable.
Program parents' marriages are disposable.
If the kid won't provide love and abject obedience on command, and can't be forced into a mold of providing love and abject obedience on command, he's disposable, too.
Gimme my high-powered career and my Lexus and everything else enough money can buy.
After all, if my kid can't provide me with abject obedience, affection on demand, and an conveniently painless substitute for adolescence, what the hell is he good for, anyway?
If he's not "enhancing my personal growth", to hell with him.
Maybe this doesn't describe you and your kid. But it seems to describe the majority of program kids who aren't seriously mentally ill, and the kids who are seriously mentally ill need better and different treatment than the programs provide, anyway. For the kids who are seriously mentally ill, the programs are dangerous and do more harm than help. That's NIMH's opinion of facilities that place seriously mentally ill children alongside juvenile delinquents.
The majority of program parents wouldn't have disposable children if they hadn't already had disposable marriages.
Timoclea
May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.
-- George Carlin
