If that is the case, then after reading your rantings, then it is well that you are on the list. I would certainly not want my children having contact with someone like you who wants to interfere with the choices that I make for them as parents. Where do you get off thinking that what you want for the girl is better than what her parents want for her? This is not an issue of what is best for her, but this is an issue of you wanting to be in control and you are not getting your way. It would appear that you are not used to not getting your way. This has nothing to do with the girl. This is all about you. I have been to ALA in Mexico. It is a safe, clean, loving place. The girls are happy. They are very well cared for. Of course she didn't want to be there. Do you mean to say that you have never made her brother do anything he didn't want to do? Only an unfit parent would never make a child do what they didn't want to do. That is paret of the job of being a parent. And along with it, part of the role of a parent is taking criticism from others who try to second guess us. Paige, she is not your daughter. You have not walked in their shoes. You do not know the grief they have gone through. They have chosen this course of action to help her. It is called tough love. The prisons are full of individuals who were never shown tough love. So Paige, if they didn't show tough love, and allowed her to continue the path she was walking, would you be there supporting them or giving further criticism down the road when she was in trouble with the law? There are consequences for your actions. She apparently was not willing to look to the future and see where her actions were taking her. What you are attempting to do is just as bad as the relatives of Elian Gonzalez, the six year old who washed up on the shores of Florida. His father wanted him back in Cuba, but the cousins wouldn't let him, because in their arrogance, they thought they knew what was better for him. They, the cousins, were the ones who hurt the little boy. They interfered with the parent. In the end, justice prevailed and he was reunited with his father. And rightly so, the relatives who tried to interfere, will not be having any contact with him any time soon. If you truly love her, as you claim you do, then you will leave her alone. Stop thinking about yourseslf and think about what you are putting her brother through, or don't you care? Haven't these two children been through enough already without you putting them through more? If you truly love her, then you will support her parents in their trying to help her, instead of tearing them down. She needs to see the adults in her life who truly love her, unified, not divided. You are the one causing division. You do not have to agree with their choice in order to support them. All you are accomplishing is giving justification as to why you shouldn't have any contact with her. There is nothing in anything you have written that would make any parent want to let you near their child. On the contrary. You are interfering. I applaud her parents for loving her so much that they are willing to stand the slander from you and the others who are second guessing their decisions. Just because you don't agree, doesn't make it a bad decision. Based on your writings, she is in a much better place where she is, than being subjected to an influence like you (someone who tries to undermine her parents authority over her). Pray for God's will to be done, not Paige's will to be done.
