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Urgent—32 year old bipolar daughter pregnant and may be homeless
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<blockquote data-quote="Copabanana" data-source="post: 755763" data-attributes="member: 18958"><p>Dear Denise</p><p></p><p>Denise. I live in the other side of the country so know nothing about specific resources where your daughter lives.</p><p></p><p>I am so sorry you find yourself in this impossibly difficult situation. I think you've received good counsel, resources and support. I wanted to add one thing. I am not an attorney but I am wondering if there is a competency issue here.</p><p>In my state, this action alone could bring about involuntary hospitalization due to "danger to others."</p><p>There seems to be a pattern of escalating violent behavior over which she seems to have insufficient control.</p><p></p><p>I have been reading about elderly people whose family members make decisions for them about contraception and protection. I wondered why. If adult children can make decisions for their elderly parent, why can't an elderly parent make this kind of decision for an adult child with serious mental illness.</p><p></p><p>In my town there is free legal help at Superior Court every morning. I am wondering if you could ask around to find out about the actual legal situation you and she are in.</p><p></p><p>I am wondering if due to her level of mental illness, that family members could help her make reproductive decisions. I would urge you to call County Emergency Services and/or the Police every single time she is violent or threatens violence. In the long run this will help her and help others around her.</p><p></p><p>I will say what I think, which is line with what you post: if she is violent and can't care for herself, is unstable and dependent, how in the world can she parent a child? How is anybody served by permitting her to bear children who she can't parent? My adopted son's birth mother had had 4 children before he was born. He was taken away at 2 weeks when she threatened to flush him down the toilet. Don't children, born and unborn. have any rights? How is it wrong to call it what it is?</p><p></p><p>I support you 100 percent. I wish it wasn't so very hard. Love.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Copabanana, post: 755763, member: 18958"] Dear Denise Denise. I live in the other side of the country so know nothing about specific resources where your daughter lives. I am so sorry you find yourself in this impossibly difficult situation. I think you've received good counsel, resources and support. I wanted to add one thing. I am not an attorney but I am wondering if there is a competency issue here. In my state, this action alone could bring about involuntary hospitalization due to "danger to others." There seems to be a pattern of escalating violent behavior over which she seems to have insufficient control. I have been reading about elderly people whose family members make decisions for them about contraception and protection. I wondered why. If adult children can make decisions for their elderly parent, why can't an elderly parent make this kind of decision for an adult child with serious mental illness. In my town there is free legal help at Superior Court every morning. I am wondering if you could ask around to find out about the actual legal situation you and she are in. I am wondering if due to her level of mental illness, that family members could help her make reproductive decisions. I would urge you to call County Emergency Services and/or the Police every single time she is violent or threatens violence. In the long run this will help her and help others around her. I will say what I think, which is line with what you post: if she is violent and can't care for herself, is unstable and dependent, how in the world can she parent a child? How is anybody served by permitting her to bear children who she can't parent? My adopted son's birth mother had had 4 children before he was born. He was taken away at 2 weeks when she threatened to flush him down the toilet. Don't children, born and unborn. have any rights? How is it wrong to call it what it is? I support you 100 percent. I wish it wasn't so very hard. Love. [/QUOTE]
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