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[quote=Anonymous]OP it is not a reflection on you that your son is so unmanageable.   I don't care what anyone says, some kids just are.  I have a cousin whose behavior, IMO, hastened my aunt's death from lung cancer.  Before her death, he voluntarily moved out of her house rather than apologize for being disrespectful.  He didn't speak to her for months until the week she passed.  Then at the hospital and again at the funeral he put on such a spectacle you would have thought she was the most important thing in his world (maybe that was the point).   It got so bad he had to be led out of the funeral hall twice, and I thought he was going to jump into her grave after the coffin.

He moved in with my mother and proceeded to wage a campaign of pettiness for no reason against my stepfather (who is the sort of man who'd give you his last dollar), all while refusing to finish HS or get a job.  My mother finally realized it was going to be him or her marriage (and her sanity) and gave him the insurance money from my aunt's policy and asked him to leave.

All that said, you have 2 other children to worry about.  Do what you have to do to protect your family.  I'm so sorry that in your case, the threat happens to be their brother.  [/quote]

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