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get the red out

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2. Parents need help

Reply to BridgeTheGap (Original post)

Mon Dec 17, 2012, 10:49 AM

Dec 2012

Parents of kids with these problems need serious help. We don't need to just shrug our shoulders and expect them to fix it. Serious help needs to be redily available for them. It would benefit our entire society.

I can't imagine living like that. I'm grateful I never had children, personally, but living with a child with problems like that....what a hell to go through. We don't need to sweep it under the carpet and make these parents and their kids invisible until the so-called unthinkable happens again.

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Mom says 'I am Adam Lanza's mother,' details life with terrifying son [View all] BridgeTheGap Dec 2012 OP

Great article, but so sad. Nt NYC_SKP Dec 2012 #1

apparently that boy couldn't feel pain like you and I. I remember seeing a show roguevalley Dec 2012 #11

Parents need help get the red out Dec 2012 #2

Ah yes, the new NRA talking point. Guns don't kill. The mentally ill kill. Walk away Dec 2012 #3

It is a tragedy. But so is a drone strike on a school. Is the drone operator groovedaddy Dec 2012 #7

I can't even imagine how this would feel iamelisabethparker Dec 2012 #4

At this sad time I welcome you to DU. hrmjustin Dec 2012 #5

Last year I had to start the process of committing my then 16 year old son, Throckmorton Dec 2012 #6

Good post. HooptieWagon Dec 2012 #8

That sounds like it was a tough decision to have to do that davidpdx Dec 2012 #12

Does she too have a boatload of mzmolly Dec 2012 #9

... let's feed our children more GMO food & pump them with chemical-based mood-meds ... Myrina Dec 2012 #10