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Originally Posted by RubberSponge
That is a outlier. He could have easily found himself under a bridge with a growing meth addiction and future spiraled in homelessness.
We are talking about a kid who is struggling in some way right now. My point is adding the enormous struggle of being homeless does not help like most would think it would. Tough love can be tough and have adverse outcomes.
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Well, seems to me that there are steps before this one.
Kid doesn't want to work, go to school, or the military.
I'm certain there's a cellphone, video game console-and there's a car, fer ****sake. How does he have a car if he didn't have a job?
Probably too late to take the car. But I'd pay for nothing whatsoever for his entertainment. Tell him he gets a job by the end the month or he's cut off entirely financially. He will pay his own cell bill. If the car is in your names, he will pay for it to be insured, or you'll take it back and sell it. No more free ride.
shouldn't have to do that at 19. I was in a damned hurry to get out of the house myself.