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<blockquote data-quote="Miss P" data-source="post: 711388" data-attributes="member: 21735"><p>Thank you all for replying. We live in a small town and everyone knows each other. My son just turned 18 and is now a senior in high school. As far as drugs, he has been suspended from school for smoking marijuana on school grounds when he was in the 10th grade and the principal and teacher told me that he was hanging with a boy that was known for trouble with drugs. He quit football so he rarely leaves the house after school so he don't really hang around this guy after school. I've smelled it on him twice and of course he lied about it. He is currently on probation. Unfortunately, the police only come here and talk to him even though I'm reporting physical violence. When they came Wednesday night AFTER what he did including forcing me to stay locked in a room, they yelled at him, made him take his medicine and threatened him that if they came back, he'd be arrested. Well I had to call them back the very next morning because he hit me in the face. This time they came to talk to him again and I told them he had to leave my home. I asked why didn't they arrest him after he admitted he hit me and snatched my phone? They told they would "turn in the report"??? I DEMANDED that he left my house with them there. The police did make sure that happened. </p><p>I have talked to DHR, counselors, probation officers, begged them to put him in a detention center and it's like nobody takes me serious. I feel cheated by the system. It's almost like they don't believe a child would hurt their parent. I've been pressing my brain trying to figure out how he learned to be this way. I thought this was learned behavior. I honestly grew up watching my mother go through this with my father and I said to myself that I wouldn't let my husband do that to me. After his father and I separated before he was born, I have been living a life of celibacy because I didnt want to take a chance on another man turning out to be violent against me. There have been no other man with me which is why I'm confused about where he learned to be so abusive. He has never seen me go through that. Yelling is not even allowed in our house not even towards our dog whom he really upsets with his behavior. </p><p>I just felt so defeated. The sad part is, he's so intellectually smart that people wouldn't believe this monster lives inside of him. Now I'm going to help myself and this board helped me see my own need for help because we have NO resources for this here.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Miss P, post: 711388, member: 21735"] Thank you all for replying. We live in a small town and everyone knows each other. My son just turned 18 and is now a senior in high school. As far as drugs, he has been suspended from school for smoking marijuana on school grounds when he was in the 10th grade and the principal and teacher told me that he was hanging with a boy that was known for trouble with drugs. He quit football so he rarely leaves the house after school so he don't really hang around this guy after school. I've smelled it on him twice and of course he lied about it. He is currently on probation. Unfortunately, the police only come here and talk to him even though I'm reporting physical violence. When they came Wednesday night AFTER what he did including forcing me to stay locked in a room, they yelled at him, made him take his medicine and threatened him that if they came back, he'd be arrested. Well I had to call them back the very next morning because he hit me in the face. This time they came to talk to him again and I told them he had to leave my home. I asked why didn't they arrest him after he admitted he hit me and snatched my phone? They told they would "turn in the report"??? I DEMANDED that he left my house with them there. The police did make sure that happened. I have talked to DHR, counselors, probation officers, begged them to put him in a detention center and it's like nobody takes me serious. I feel cheated by the system. It's almost like they don't believe a child would hurt their parent. I've been pressing my brain trying to figure out how he learned to be this way. I thought this was learned behavior. I honestly grew up watching my mother go through this with my father and I said to myself that I wouldn't let my husband do that to me. After his father and I separated before he was born, I have been living a life of celibacy because I didnt want to take a chance on another man turning out to be violent against me. There have been no other man with me which is why I'm confused about where he learned to be so abusive. He has never seen me go through that. Yelling is not even allowed in our house not even towards our dog whom he really upsets with his behavior. I just felt so defeated. The sad part is, he's so intellectually smart that people wouldn't believe this monster lives inside of him. Now I'm going to help myself and this board helped me see my own need for help because we have NO resources for this here. [/QUOTE]
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