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Cow- what happened to Pat?  What was the cause of death?  Did you know Max kutch at HLA?  Or Chad Wallace?

I see a lot of accusations on this website but most of these posters are listed as guest or use pseudonyms.  If you have valid complaints, wouldn?t they have more impact if you identified yourself and gave verifiable proof of your accusations?

It's easy to pick on Karen or any other program parent, but when I read things like the IM exchange I have to laugh at how clueless some of you are. "Be his parent" and all that horseshit about being better at hiding the car keys or whatever.

I am totally opposed to BM programs and I advocate community-based therapy that keeps families together. But I can appreciate that some families find themselves in a seemingly impossible situation and they don't know what to do.

I don't know about Karen's situation, but some parents have a teen that is quite literally terrorizing the family. Don't tell me you believe that "be a parent" and "listen to him" is going to solve anything. By "terrorizing," I don't mean normal shit like smoking pot, banging his girlfriend, skipping school and being a general shit to his parents. I'm talking real juvenile delinquent stuff -- stealing cash, jewelry, and other valuables from parents and siblings, stealing and wrecking cars, shoplifting, DUI, selling drugs from his parents house, etc.

Some "troubled teens" really are out of control. Some parents would rather not intentionally get the cops involved, although juvi is probably a better place than any BM program. Criticize the parents all you want, but I don't hear a lot of good suggestions for parents whose kids are hard-core delinquents.