My teen ranaway
![[Post New]](/jforum/templates/default/images/icon_minipost_new.gif){kind=icon}
Anonymous
For many teens, who won’t come home, a shelter provides safety and services. The police will stop dragging your child home if 15 or older and a repeat runaway. My cousin was charged with child abuse after she accidentally scratched her 15 daughter forcing her into the family car from the yard of a 25 year old man who was hiding her. The charges were dropped, but her DD had disappeared by then. |
Anonymous
| Holding you, your daughter and your family in my prayers, OP. |
Anonymous
| I'm so sorry, OP. Sometimes parenting is so very hard. I wish all the best for you. |
Anonymous
| So sorry, OP. Sending good thoughts vibes and prayers, and a virtual hug. |
Anonymous
| I’m sorry OP. It’s hard enough when they aren’t home with you. To not know where they are must be gut wrenching. |
Anonymous
| I'm sorry OP and will pray for her quick and safe return. |
Anonymous
| OP here - yet another day when I drive to work crying. I have to remind myself that this too shall pass.. Thanks for all your positive thoughts, so much appreciate it!! |
Anonymous
| Sending you hugs OP. I am praying for her safe return and a lot of happiness for you all. |
Anonymous
| Another eventual good outcome story: my friend's daughter (possibly bipolar, not sure if any official dx) was very rebellious when her mom became single parent when the girl (youngest daughter) was 13. Mom ended up having her adjudicated and placed in therapeutic foster care (which is often a joke). Girl continued to party/do drugs/hang with adult men with foster parents clueless. Mom found out. Social worker threatened residential treatment. Teen (16 by then) ran away. County returned custody to mom rather than have an eloped foster kid on their books. Mom was indigent and could not afford to look for her daughter. Daughter turned up in another state. Stayed there until she was 18 living with a39 yo felon with meth convictions. Once 18 and out of reach of county she returned, continued to use meth, other criminal stuff she mostly did not get caught with. Got pregnant. Went into a shelter for single mothers/pregnant women being treated for addiction. Finished GED. Went to college. Became social worker and therapeutic foster parent herself. Adopted a special needs child. Now is director for social services for 3 counties. She's 31. |
Anonymous
OP, why was she in a shelter and didn't want to be at home? |
Anonymous
| I’m so sorry this is your circumstance. I’m wishing best for you your daughter and your family. Strength patients and blessings to you. |
Anonymous
NP. My daughter is the same way, but still mad at the world at 20. Really hoping for that mid-20s turnaround! |
Anonymous
|
OP- James Lehman has helped a lot of people with his Empowering Parents program. Here is his biography. I don't think your DD is going down this road and certainly didn't have Lehman's personal history, but he provides a lot of insight into what might be going through your DD's mind.
https://www.empoweringparents.com/article/from-problem-child-to-child-behavioral-therapist-james-lehmans-personal-transformation/ |
Anonymous
| Hang in there, OP. Many years ago, my sister was a teenage runaway. She had two kids and was married at 20. Divorced and remarried a super-stable man. Got her GED and went to college. She is now a middle-aged woman who is a doting daughter to my parents, has a very stable home life with her husband, and now opens her home to teenagers as a foster parent. It was a long, painful few years, but she turned it around and is one of the most generous, loving people I know. |
Anonymous
| Hugs, OP. I'm so very sorry and keeping you and your family in my thoughts. Please keep us posted. |