Carroll O'Connor's son lived close to him and his daughter-in-law was on the side of the parents. Yet he failed to get his son away from drug dealer. Jeb Bush has problems with a daughter, and I cannot blame him.
I have personal knowledge of good parents who tried to help their child but failed even tough the child was in the same city. Sad.
“I have personal knowledge of good parents who tried to help their child but failed even tough the child was in the same city. Sad”
It is so sadly true. There are so many factors and as one’s child gets older, and more able to be entitled to being viewed as “adult” by all social agencies, courts,and themselves, there are staggering legal, intrapsychic and social obstacles to reaching them. It would be a particularly formidable task if the child is bipolar, given to distorting things various ways at various times and has fallen in with influential and “professional” people with their own exploitative agendas.