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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Please be there for your friend. She has lost her job, her son, her support. She is stuck in the house with a bad husband, a perverted son and a lot of shame. She didn’t do it and I doubt she knew about it. I actually suspect - based on your description of the change in this young man - that he is probably mentally I’ll and that’s why the parents had let him live with them. There are a lot of mental illnesses that show up in young adulthood. Of course, that doesn’t excuse the CP, but it may help explain why they were supporting him. [/quote]

This.  We have friends whose adult son was diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenic and who had to seek guardianship.  It's very, very hard to get a legal adult declared mentally incompetent.  If their son's illness was less severe, I could easily see a world where they would have had to make the call whether to allow him to play video games in their attic permanently versus having a volatile and unsafe adult man (who they can't control legally or physically) out in the world.  With guardianship they can now have him institutionalized when his mental health deteriorates, but without that lever they would have been in a very very tough spot.

Obviously there's no excuse for CP, but it seems plausible your friend had no idea.  [/quote]

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