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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Tell me your challenges parenting adult children. I am in the throes and have concluded this is by far the most difficult phase of them all. [/quote]

Basically, as much worry but just with less control to fix.[/quote]
so true.

Really, not much different between 17 and 18, but now you have very little control over the 18 yr old.[/quote]

And that’s why they can be “bigger” problems. The 17 y.o. might end up in a juvenile court with a sympathetic judge. The 18 y.o. could be in front of a judge who just doesn’t give a sh*t about mental illness, first offense, etc. They may mistake the behavior of your unmedicated child as surly and disrespectful as opposed to tentative and paranoid. So your now unmedicated kid is slapped with a 2-year sentence and in a prison with zero psychiatric care. Nothing like months and months of a raging psychosis where they are routinely beaten by guards and fellow prisoners because they “won’t behave.”

So the worry isn’t really the same and the chance of control is even less, if at all.

This seems hard for some folks to accept on this thread. Again, no one is dismissing the problems of the littles and  the mid kids. But there’s nothing like being a parent of an adult child where the state has decided you have no role. [/quote]

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