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[quote=Anonymous]The thing is tough love is risky. What if the child doesn't pull themselves up by their bootstraps? What if they end up homeless? Turn to drugs? Get taken advantage of? Forced to live in unsafe conditions/vulnerable to abusive relationships? Parents are also worried that their failure to launch child lacks grit and resilience due to their lack of something in their home environment or upbringing, so they feel responsible. A young adult brain isn't fully formed until 25. Some things are hard to pinpoint. What is a phase, verses a full blown psychiatric diagnosis? Mental health conditions don't become fully apparent until mid to late 20s. Every situation and family is different. There are no easy answers A supportive family leads to the best outcomes in most situations, versus a family who writes a person off Sometimes the "failure to launch" is the scapegoat, the identified patient, and is carrying everyone else's dysfunction. Those are my thoughts [/quote]
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