What do you do when you need to balance the mental illness of one child against the wellness of a whole family? Do you allow the mentally ill and potentially very violent child to return home? Or do you push for another residential placement?
Category: accountability
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Eval
David and I are traveling six hours tomorrow to get him evaluated for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder. This is a second opinion. At 15, he likely will not be able to get any services for the diagnosis. But like I have said in the past, I don’t want anyone to say we haven’t tried to…
Failings of a Father.
Today, I write about my failings as a father. Yesterday I wrote about an investigation that occurred into an incident at the facility where David lives. What may have been “innocent play” resulted in an investigation. an investigation I just learned about. are there gaps in the system? Hell Yes. How could they not tell…