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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m a little shocked at everyone who is implying the OP is a bad parent for not changing flights to go RIGHT NOW. Of course that would be ideal, but sometimes that’s just short of impossible. It would be so difficult for me to pay hundreds of dollars for an urgent but not truly emergency situation with no notice the week before Christmas. We’re not impoverished, but we’re spread really thin because of unforseeable circumstances. The kid’s life isn’t in danger, OP has contact with him, grandpa knows he’s on notice. It seems like OP is trying to be practical and make the best of a shitty situation.

On the other hand, if money is no object, and she can easily afford to change flights but chose not to because she doesn’t feel like it, then I’ll join the chorus of shamers. But sometimes in the real world, we have to make tough choices, but we middle through somehow. [/quote]

Her son is being hit, deprived of food, and ordered to stay in one place.

This isn't a shifty situation, it's a danger to his physical health and surely a trauma that will stay with him. When your kid is in this situation and you have the means to buy him a plane ticket there, as well as one for yourself, you have the means to pay the fee to change the tickets. [/quote]

Don't be so dramatic.  OP is the one talking to her son, and she knows him best.[/quote]

If she knows him (and what to do with him) so we’ll, why is there even a thread about her son???

She said she grew up in a violent home and sent her son into that home alone

Sister could be asked to intervene, but that is inconvenient.

She could do to him herself, but again inconvenient.

Every adult in this story has turned a blind eye to the needs of this child

Utterly ridiculous and I can only hope this defining moment for a son turns him into a better person than any “role model” adult around him. [/quote]

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