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Originally Posted by Detoxing
As someone who came from a ****ed up background similar to Dez's: Bullshit
Complete bullshit.
We live in a country where we're constantly exposed to success and moral high ground. You don't need parents to teach right and wrong anymore. Society does it well enough for anyone who's willing to give a shit.
I've lived with troubled teens and even worked in a Juvenile court school and have seen enough to know better than to buy into that line of "victim" bullshit.[/QUOTE]
Did you have kids that begged you not to send them back home? In the place I worked at that dealt with adjudicated youth, it was more common then not to have the kid not want to return to the home environment. I remember 1 kid that was from Chicago telling me that "They'll kill me if you send me back. I've already got 1 contract out on my head, and if I refuse to join back up with the gang I was in, I'll have 2." Some make it out of those types of upbringing (apparently you are 1 of those, and I commend you for that). However, most don't. No easy answers
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I was one of those kids who begged not to go home. That's how i wound up in a group home. The therapist evaluated me and came to the conclusion that i was just being a "rebelious teen", despite my myriad of horror stories, my father's criminal history and substance abuse.
I was in awe after the therapist came to that conclusion. How anyone could come to that conclusion after what i shared was unbelievable and i refused to go home and back into that mess.
When it comes to "escaping" the gang life, it's a bit embellished. There is ALWAYS a way.
In order for me to move forward, i COMPLETELY erased my past @ age 15. Different city, ditched my GF, no family and made a whole new set of friends an hour away from where i grew up. It's plenty doable if that person is WILLING to do it.
And if your home life is so awful, then you'd probably be motivated enough to do it.
There's simply too many resources out there for troubled youth as long as you're willing to do it.