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In reply to the discussion: If your 13 year old son stole a car... [View all]justaprogressive
(7,178 posts)another example of successful juvenile placement. (See my post #12
where I describe working for such a facility)
However I take issue with the following statement:
"Some are born without the ability to have empathy for
others and for some reason get pleasure in hurting others.
Nothing will change them."
No one is BORN this way. Attitudes such as you described
are TAUGHT just like HATE is. A large percentage of the damaged kids
we saw had parents that were completely off the deep end. The patterns
of abuse made you want to cry..
Now the 30yr nurse in me speaking, yes, there are a very few kids who have chemical
imbalances in their brain, but using this myth (and research has shown it is a myth) to explain
depression, bipolar and other diagnoses is a dead end.
Once again thanks for posting about a working program...