Reply #27: Ask me in another 15 years or so,

[LWolf]

and I'll let you know. That's when my grandson, now in my son's custody after his early years of abuse and neglect with his mom. We've poured every last personal, family, community, health, legal, educational resource available into helping him. Two years, and the progress is there, but so slow, and so small, that you would have to be in the room with him 2 years ago to really be able to notice it. His social/emotional wounds and scars are still horrifically visible and active. No matter what we do, it seems that there are some things we cannot overcome.

Will more time, therapy, special schooling, and consistent, safe, love and nurturing at home make a difference, or will he be a rage-filled, manipulative bully as a man? Only time will tell.