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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A lot depends on the child.

First semester, friend drove a seven hour one-way distance on a biweekly -- even weekly -- basis to visit her daughter, who has pre-existing mental health issues. Things improved a lot second semester and mom was able to not go up quite so often. [/quote]

Well obviously, if you have a kid with that severe of mental health issues or regular health issues that actually requires your being involved on that level, you dont' send your kid even 6 hours away....you find them a good school within 1-2 hour drive.  
But that is not most kids.  Most kids do just fine being a distance away, especially if they chose the school and really want to attend.  Sure adjusting is difficult, but that would be the case wherever you are and in some ways not seeing the family and friends from home very other week is a good thing---it forces you to go out of your comfort zone, make new friends and take advantages of all your university has to offer.  [/quote]

The kids (many) that I know had no prior known mental illness.  This is a plague hitting college age kids. So many with severe depression, schizophrenia, bipolar, etc that happen once on campus.  30% of college kids will experience it.[/quote]

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