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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I read that the parents are Chinese PHD Statisticians. As someone who grew up in a Chinese household, I am not surprised to read that one of the parents dismissed everything as "fine" and that the kid would get therapy if he needed it - this was prior to the kid being taken into custody. 
There is a lot of undiagnosed psychological issues in the Chinese population because of the need to maintain face. The culture's intense focus on studying and academics loses sight of the need to develop as a social being. My kid is studying in Asia this year and she and her American classmates still don't know how to react to the incredibly socially awkward kids at their college - so shy that they refuse to look at you, sometimes turn their entire body away, pretend you are not there.... 
This poor kid probably didn't get a whole lot of direction on social cues from his parents growing up.[/quote]

He had been in therapy, crisis services, inpatient, and residential. He spent almost a year in inpatient / residential. This wasn't an undiagnosed issue ignored by his culturally avoidant parents. The issue is that he has had homicidal ideation for almost two years despite all the mental health and psychiatric help he has had. Dad didn't mean fine as in the kid has no issues, he meant fine as in he is status quo - same as how he has been for ages. [/quote]

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