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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op here. Thank you for the insightful and thought out comments. We agreed to help him out but put several stipulations including requiring him to start seeing a therapist regularly while away at school. He has slight learning disability and depressive tendacies and sees psychologist while home, but just calls psychiatrist for med mgmt while away. He's a student athlete on full ride scholarship, so that sport is his job during school, but his ass is mine this summer, earning every penny back. There goes rest and relaxation. I'm not sure what hubby would have done by "writing him off".  I think sometimes hubby makes these absolute statements knowing ill come back as voice of reason and come up with a plan. It's shitty, but that's how it goes and is what I chose so whatever. Ds seems very remorseful. It was a misdemeanor and scared him to death. He has trouble with impulse control and thrill seeking, but until now, its always been silly things like pranks or jokes gone a notch too far. Apologies, extra classes, and a lot of stress to dad and I has always taken care of his problems before, but this is the first time hes really needed us to be involved to this extent. I hope he is being truthful. I couldn't bring myself to say it is a one-strike you are out deal, though, because I hats when I cant stick to my word. Inside though, ive taken that comment to heart. Thank you all again.[/quote]

I am speaking from experience--I got into legal trouble in HS. Really wrong place, wrong time -- it looked far far, worse than it was. I still think it was a set up to protect someone else. Very traumatic for a young person. Parents paid to fix the record/represent in court. Never had trouble again and it has been 30 years! Have faith in your son![/quote]

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