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Originally Posted by JoeBlack
If I was a parent the first thing I would have done was ask myself why does my son have to sell drugs ? Then I would tell myself if money was the only problem then I should figure out a way to set my son up with some of this great porn money im making. Or even offer to set him up an account as long as he stayed away from selling drugs and kept his grades at a decent level. Who knows maybe that might have worked to.
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And if you had read Sue's first post carefully you would have seen she has done all this. She had the choice of taking this step or giving up on her son, you I take would have just given up, after all what is a son, you can always have another one, right?
I think the problem with you not being a father is that you have no experience of how a teenager reacts. You can tell them 'till you are blue in the face and get ignored. In many cases they have to see for themselves the consequences of their actions before they accept them.
Incidentally, most people here seem to have a view of prison life that comes from watching too much Fox and too many bad movies. Prison life may be bad, but this romantic view that 'everyone gets killed in prison, and when they get out (after being murdered in the exercise yard?) they cannot get a job and their life is ruined', is as much bullshit as saying 'life in prison is like a holiday camp, and you get free lemonade whenever you want'.