Dr. Phil used Turn-about Ranch as a threat against two ordinary daughters of an two out of control parents.
I have to say:
1. Drinking - no problem as long as the percentage is below 16.5. The parents in the neighborhood should start working for a change in the laws so they can arrange safe bag-parties where the amount of alcohol is controlled by the parents in dialogue with their children.
2. Using Xanax. That is what happens once you limit the access to alcohol. Then the teens reach for whatever gives them the same affect as alcohol.
3. Driving. Before they have conclude the rite of passage where every teenager test the limits with alcohol, then there should be no driving at all.
I cannot see the problems those parents in the show face. Holding Turn-about Ranch up as something to be scared off, is properly correct in many ways because it is a scary place. But shouldn't places like Turn-about be used for kids with problems?
