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No one wants to send a 13-year old genius who loves Harry Potter and his snuggle animal collection to jail. But our society, with its stigma on mental illness and its broken healthcare system, does not provide us with other options.

I truly do feel sorry for this woman, and the pain she has in dealing with her son. It is the 'progressives' in this country who have made life difficult for her. They are the ones who pushed the notion that we shouldn't put the mentally ill in hospitals, that this was denying them their freedom. They didn't take into consideration what families would have to endure if their kids began to experience mental problems, and then get worse as they become young adults, then move into adulthood, when they are no longer under any semblance of control from their parents. No, they don't belong in jail, but in order to change this, we'll have to fight against the liberals who want everyone to believe they have cornered the market on compassion for the downtrodden in this country.

It is the 'progressives' in this country who have made life difficult for her.

I personally think they've helped to create mental health issues in our youth. Some pretty heavy and twisted crap is being dumped on children at a very early age these days. They're being told that the planet is being destroyed by parents who just don't care. Homosexuality is normal and if you don't have homosexual thought then you aren't normal.

It goes on and on.

Not criticizing because I am one myself but didn’t the movement to empty state hospitals grow from a coalition of community mental health advocates, civil libertarians AND fiscal conservatives concerned with the enormous expense of inpatient care ? There has to be a better way although we are obviously not going back to the 1950’s before effective drugs and treatments when mental institutions around the country quickly filled as every slight problem with a person was viewed as insanity.