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Oct. 7th, 2008 03:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
You know that hypothetical ethics thing where you're in a boat and you have to decide which member of your family to toss overboard in order to save the rest? I liked when that was just hypothetical.
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Due to the dwindling mental health services in my community, it has become increasingly apparent that I can no longer sustain, all by my lonesome, so many extremely aggressive mentally ill children in my home. I've already begun the process of tossing my 10 year old out of the boat. On Friday we're having a big meeting about my 12 year old, during which I need to make some sort of decision about him also. I suspect everybody at this meeting will be expressing their regret that due to circumstances beyond their control they cannot offer any services. It doesn't really matter what services the treatment plan recommends if there is no one to provide said services.
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Due to the dwindling mental health services in my community, it has become increasingly apparent that I can no longer sustain, all by my lonesome, so many extremely aggressive mentally ill children in my home. I've already begun the process of tossing my 10 year old out of the boat. On Friday we're having a big meeting about my 12 year old, during which I need to make some sort of decision about him also. I suspect everybody at this meeting will be expressing their regret that due to circumstances beyond their control they cannot offer any services. It doesn't really matter what services the treatment plan recommends if there is no one to provide said services.
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Date: 2008-10-08 01:23 pm (UTC)Unrelatedly, but within days (!!!) I will have an 11,000 word present for you.
CROSS MY HEART.
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Date: 2008-10-08 02:26 pm (UTC)I haven't had much time to work on my Sentinel story because I'm stuck writing these stupid episode tags.
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Date: 2008-10-12 12:54 pm (UTC)I have 9 children, but they are not all at home as some of them are adults. It's hard to say how many of them are living here because there is a lot of moving in and out and crashing on the couch and so on. The sibling group of 3 boys ages 9, 10 and 12 are the really violent ones.
None of our local providers feel they can meet the needs of these kids, and our local psychiatric hospital, which is only a 20 minute drive from our home, has banned them from all their programs. I don't blame the hospital, they are grossly understaffed to do funding cuts, and they just can't do it, but neither can I.